Philip Chee wrote:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:42:17 -0800, Rufus wrote:
... but that's something you're going to have to explain to me - all
this "hired" vs "volunteer" stuff. Who's who, and how are they doing what?
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/staff/
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/board/
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/
Momo All-Hands 2009 (Meeting of Mozilla Messaging employees in
Vancouver, BC, Canada in August 2009)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhirlimann/sets/72157622051379888/
...how do they make money?..just what is it that they sell?
Advertising?..donations?..
Seeing as all these apps are free, I've been assuming that everyone is a
"volunteer". So, just who is paying the "hired guns", how do they make
enough money on a free product to get paid, and just why and what keeps
it all free?
Dude, never heard of google?
State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements
http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-and-2008/
Checking in on Mozilla's Financial Health
http://ostatic.org/blog/checking-in-on-mozillas-financial-health
Much of the money Mozilla makes in profit comes from a Google search deal.
http://www.itpro.co.uk/617977/mozilla-reliant-on-google-for-cash
Mozilla: Still too dependent on Google for revenue; Can it diversify?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27670
Phil
I thought Mozilla was a open source project...did that stop?..which was
why I though everybody doing this stuff (other than Apple with Safari)
were "volunteers"...
...ok, so now we're lead back to "code sharing" and "conspiracy
theories"...which is it? Mozilla "belongs" to Google? Or gets paid by
them just because you can navigate to Google with them? I still don't
get it.
I remember that the only add-on I've put into SM was to make Google my
default search engine...so somebody got paid and it's built in now?
--
- Rufus
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