MARK SURMAN, PRESIDENT, MOZILLA Keeping the internet, and the content that makes it a vital and vibrant part of our global society, free and accessible has

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    @tetris11 @GnuLinuxDude

    Mozilla Corporation – which makes Firefox – is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit.

    A nonprofit can’t generate a lot of business income unrelated to its mission. Firefox used to generate a lot of income, so it had to be spun off into a taxable entity called Mozilla Corporation.

    The corporation doesn’t have investors in the usual sense.

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      Christ that’s a messy inheritance model. Hopefully Firefox will be spun off to, and will have to focus solely on the browser.