“According to experts, the Mozilla Foundation’s announcement on
Aug. 3 regarding the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a taxable
for-profit subsidiary, is a bit different. The decision here was
purely business-oriented because the foundation’s officials were
hit with the reality that if the foundation was to continue its
mission of providing open-source browsers, then it must expand its
business and have monies available to reinvest in its
software-development initiatives.“‘With Mozilla, its core essence has been this notion about
doing things for free,’ said Michael Gartenberg, vice president at
Jupiter Research…”