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Mozilla earned $78.6 million in 2008 From the 'Free Software Making $$' files:
Mozilla gives its software away for free, yet year after year they keep making money. For the 2008 year, Mozilla is just now disclosing how much revenue it generated and it was another growth year for the open source group. Revenue at Mozilla was reported at $78.6 for 2008 which is a 5 percent increase over the $75.1 million reported in 2007. The revenue growth rate appears to have slowed somewhat in my opinion. Back in 2005, Mozilla's revenues were only $53 million. As has been the case over the last several year the bulk of Mozilla's revenue is driven by search revenues generated from Firefox by Google, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay. So whenever you search using the default start page in Firefox, you're actually helping to support Mozilla. Digging deeper into Mozilla's financial report shows some other interesting tidbits of information. For example, Mozilla actually lost $7.8 million (which is taken into account as part of the revenue calculation) from its investments. As well Mozilla's expenses in 2008 skyrocketed by 48 percent to $49.4 million up from $33.3 million in 2007. Why the expense increase? Well Mozilla continues to invest in people. So while other commercial entities cut their cost by cutting employees, Mozilla is going the opposite route. From an asset basis, Mozilla's 2008 tally was up by 17 percent to $116 million. Overall, from a financial perspective, a decent year for Mozilla and I haven't even mentioned all their actual release either. But what is important to remember in my view is that it is the money that keeps the machine moving forward. It is the money that helps to pay the leadership and engineering people to continue to advance Firefox and by extension the web itself. It's a virtuous circle whereby the more we all use Firefox, the more money they make, the more they can invest right back into making Firefox better for everyone. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Mozilla earned $78.6 million in 2008. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/9311 1 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Firefox seems to be advancing swiftly. Thunderbird and Sunbird (or whatever it is this week) not so much. I would like to see the other Mozilla projects getting better too.
I currently use Thunderbird for Email, and Sunbird for some limited calendaring. I am close to switching from Thunderbird to something else, because it is almost impossible for me to do meaningful backups, or to split my email by year for archival use. These are vital functions that have been ignored for several years.
So, Yes, they are good, but should be better.