The broad adoption of Mozilla Firefox has created significant economic value both in Firefox itself and in a commercial ecosystem that is developing around Firefox. This economic value is an unintended but real by-product of the Mozilla project's overriding goal of providing a Web browser with enough marketshare to drive open standards on the Web. Carefully managed, this value — and the resulting ability to generate revenue — can be used to make the Mozilla project self-sustaining and help keep the Internet open and diverse.
Mozilla Foundation Forms New Organization →
"The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. [...] By moving product development out to a new subsidiary, the Mozilla Foundation hopes to be able to concentrate on project and policy issues. [...] The Mozilla Corporation will now handle all relationships with commercial companies and its status should allow more flexibility in this area. [...] Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project.
Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation →
Mozilla Corp. in 12 simple items →
Mozilla Foundation Reorganization FAQ →
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