Mozilla Organization
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| Founded | July 15, 2003 |
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| Founder | Mozilla Organization |
| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Focus | Internet |
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| Origins | Mozilla Organization |
| Products |
Mozilla Firefox web browser Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client Mozilla Firefox OS mobile operating system List of Mozilla Foundation products |
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Key people
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Mitchell Baker (Executive director) |
| Subsidiaries |
Mozilla Corporation Mozilla Messaging |
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Revenue
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$329.5 million (2014) |
| Website | mozilla.org |
Mitchell Baker
(Executive chairman)
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, operates key infrastructure and controls Mozilla trademarks and copyrights. It owns a taxable subsidiary: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The subsidiary is 100% owned by the parent, and therefore follows the same non-profit principles. The Mozilla Foundation was founded by the Netscape-affiliated Mozilla Organization. The organization is currently based in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California, United States.
The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet." The Mozilla Foundation is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, which lists 10 principles which Mozilla believes "are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life."
On February 23, 1998, Netscape created the Mozilla Organization to co-ordinate the development of the Mozilla Application Suite. When AOL (Netscape's parent) drastically scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization, the Mozilla Foundation was launched on July 15, 2003 to ensure Mozilla could survive without Netscape. AOL assisted in the initial creation of the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to the organization, employed a three-person team for the first three months of its existence to help with the transition, and donated $2 million to the Foundation over two years.
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