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Mozilla Corporation
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{{Infobox_Company
| company_name = Mozilla Corporation
| company_logo =
Image:Mozilla-corp.png
| company_type =
Private company Private
| foundation =
Mountain View, California (2005)
| location =
Mountain View, California,
USA
| key_people =
Mitchell Baker, President
| products =
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdList of Mozilla products more...
| num_employees = 35
| homepage = [http://www.mozilla.com/ mozilla.com]
}}
The '''Mozilla Corporation''' is a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Mozilla Foundation that develops, distributes and promotes the
Internet-related
application software applications, including the
Mozilla Firefox web browser and the
Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Unlike the
non-profit organization non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a
taxable entity. In contrast to most commercial organizations, the Mozilla Corporation is not motivated purely by a desire for
profit. Instead, the Mozilla Corporation aims to work towards the Mozilla Foundation's
public benefit goals of "preserving choice and innovation on the Internet."
The Mozilla Corporation was established on
August 3,
2005 to handle the
revenue-related operations of the Mozilla Foundation. As a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue. The Mozilla Corporation, as a taxable organization (essentially, a commercial operation), does not have to comply with such strict rules. Upon its creation, the Mozilla Corporation took over several areas from the Mozilla Foundation, including the development of Firefox and Thunderbird and the management of relationships with
business businesses.
With the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, the rest of the Mozilla Foundation narrowed its focus to concentrate on the Mozilla project's governance and policy issues. It retains control of the Mozilla
source code repository and also owns the Mozilla
trademarks and other
intellectual property, which it licenses to the Mozilla Corporation.
In November 2005, with the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5, the Mozilla Corporation's website at mozilla.com was unveiled as the new home of the Firefox and Thunderbird products online.
In March 2006,
Weblogs, Inc. founder
Jason Calacanis reported a rumor on his blog that Mozilla Corporation gained $72M during the previous year, mainly thanks to the
Google search box in the Firefox browser. [http://www.calacanis.com/2006/03/06/firefox-mozilla-corporation-mozilla-foundation-made-72m-last/] The rumor was later addressed by
Christopher Blizzard, a member of the Mozilla board, who wrote on his blog that "it’s not correct, though not off by an order of magnitude". [http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=182]
People
The Mozilla Corporation
board of directors Board of Directors is appointed by and responsible to the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors:
*
Mitchell Baker (President)
*
Christopher Blizzard of
Red Hat
*
Reid Hoffman,
chief executive officer CEO of
LinkedIn
The Corporation employs:
*
Josh Aas
* Mitchell Baker
*
David Baron
*
Chris Beard
*
Mike Beltzner
*
David Bienvenu
*
Mike Connor
*
Bob Clary
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Asa Dotzler
*
Rafael Ebron
*
Brendan Eich
*
Axel Hecht
*
Chris Hofmann
*
Blake Kaplan
*
Paul Kim
*
Marcia Knous
*
Dave Liebreich
*
John Lilly (Mozilla) John Lilly
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Scott MacGregor
*
Myk Melez
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Dave Miller (Mozilla) Dave Miller
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Stuart Parmenter
*
Jay Patel
*
Alex Polvi
*
Karen Prescott
*
Deb Richardson
*
Jesse Ruderman
*
Mike Schroepfer
*
Mike Shaver
*
Ben Smedberg
*
Johnny Stenback
*
Robert Strong
*
Doug Turner
*
Dan Veditz
*
Vladimir Vukicevic
At the time of the Mozilla Corporation's creation, most of the Mozilla Foundation employees were transferred to the new organization.
References
*{{cite web | title=Mozilla Foundation Forms New Organization to Further the Creation of Free, Open Source Internet Software, Including the Award-Winning Mozilla Firefox Browser | work=Mozilla Press Center | url=http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-08-03.html | accessdate=August 3 | accessyear=2005}}
*{{cite web | title=Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation | work=MozillaZine | url=http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7085 | accessdate=August 3 | accessyear=2005}}
See also
*
Mozilla Foundation
External links
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Mozilla Corporation
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Mozilla Foundation Reorganization
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Mozilla Corp. in 12 simple items
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Mozilla Goes Corporate: Article about the evolution of the Mozilla organization
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