The Mozilla Foundation, the makers of the famous (and free to download)
browser Mozilla Firefox and the e-mail program Mozilla Thunderbird, earned about 79 million dollar in 2008. If you know that none of their programs need to purchase a license, it’s a rather high amount of profit. The greatest part of the 79 million comes from another enterprise in the same market, Google Inc. Now, Google has his own Open source web browser like Google Chrome etc. The profit of Mozilla has grown a lot in the years where Google didn’t have his own browser (in 2007 the earning of mozilla has grown about 12%, in 2008 just a little growth of 5.3%). Before google you just had Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox as the 2 great oligarchs. Now Google is penetrating the market. The contract between Google and Mozilla is still going until 2011. We all hope Mozilla can stay in Business after 2011!
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Wouter Snoeck
