[sf-lug] Free software talk

[Steve M Bibayoff]

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Q:  Is Firefox done by a company?
>
> A:  Firefox is published by the Mozilla Foundation, which pays the
> salaries of some Firefox programmers, and by outside programmers who are
> not on Mozilla Foundation's staff.  It is a figurative great-grandchild
> of Netscape Corporation's browser code re-released as free software in
> March 1998.

I'm somewhat murky on the details/implementation, but I believe the
Mozilla Foundation did start a for profit subsidiary company, the
Mozilla Corporation, to be in charge of developing Firefox, etc. More
info here:
http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/


Steve