Firefox Selling out? The Fox becomes a Corporation!

[FarFarAway]

Matt is very sad

The Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the open source web browser Firefox, has created a corporate subsidiary to support its money-making activities and help widen the use of its products, it announced on Wednesday.

While the goals of the subsidiary, called Mozilla Corporation, include generating revenue and profit, its primary interest is not in making money, the group said. Instead, its main objective is to sustain the development of Firefox and other products, and help the foundation promote its goal of driving open standards on the Web, it said.

So it reamins to be seen if FF will stay as good as it always has been, or whether it will be sold to the dogs like MS. I hope they remain focused on what FF represents

However, this is the first time that Mozilla will be a profit-seeking corporation instead of a funded foundation, which must use almost all of its money for its stated purpose. The foundation's staff will remain (supposedly at the center) of the new company, but there will be many personnel changes, as people shuffle from the foundation's board of directors to the corporation's board or corporate officer positions.

Here's hoping it turns out ok....

Read more here

 

[FragTek]

I think all will be well

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah im sure it will be dont worry

 

[limqareb]

i thought their income was investments and stocks of the company

 

[Dav0s]

no because they werent qa company and therefore couldnt hold shares

 

[limqareb]

oh ok so now ffx isnt going to be free nemore?

 

[balilu]

same here ( i suppose )

 

[Joe]

Matt dont worry .. FF will still remain opensource (it was distrubuted under GPL) ... they arent selling out .. just gettin finance

remeber they like to pay Open-Source coders who patch their software with $500 and a t-shirt, they will need a source of that funding