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Report: Mozilla Healthy, Too Close To Google

  • ZDNet, Friday, November 20, 2009 5:15 PM
With all this talk of operating systems around the upcoming release of Google OS, ZDNet takes a look at Mozilla, which just reported its 2008 audited financials. The organization behind the Firefox browser delivered consolidated revenue of $78.6 million, up 5% from 2007, while its revenue picture looks even better if you exclude the $7.8 million loss in Mozilla's investment portfolio. The worry: Google, now a competitor, is still bankrolling Mozilla. Still, according to Mitchell Baker, chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, the company now funds 200 people working full or part-time; it has outposts across the globe and Firefox comes in 70 languages; it is launching messaging software; and Firefox has 110 million daily users as of November. A professed fan, ZDNet reporter Larry Dignan worries about the foundation's financial stability depends on Google. Baker noted that Mozilla is diversifying its revenue base somewhat, but not enough in Dignan's view.

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