"We're really interested; the Web is the ideal platform for whatever uses an operating system targeted. It’s lot of work, "president of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker." I think we're going to continue for some time on the Internet as a platform to focus and strengthen the capabilities of the Web, instead of an operating system of ours, and to draw all people in our world. "
President of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker
President of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell Baker
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Baker shared his thoughts in an interview on the report of the Mozilla Foundation in the amount of 79 million. The Foundation is not short of money, but it is financially dwarfed by the three main competitors in the browser market, Microsoft, Apple and Google.
Microsoft has been dormant, if Firefox is still there from five years, but the company is a fire under the developers of Internet Explorer for IE 9th Being promoted to executive functions faster Society web - based JavaScript applications, better compliance with Web standards, and superior performance in general.
Internet Explorer remains the dominant browser in use today. Today, the old IE 6, from 2001, still the version most widely used, and its widespread use is required to anchor that Web developers and other browsers, then progressing as fast as they can. Baker was so surprised that comfortable with the prospect of resurgence more powerful than IE.
"If it could rebound enough to accommodate the hundreds of millions of people still prefer to use IE 6, we were all very happy," she said. "Many people still use IE. You get it on your machine. If Microsoft makes the product more capable, they can move the Web forward, he is good at it."
The Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Firefox Developer Corp. is the taxable subsidiary, receives most of its revenue from the operation of Google search ads running through 2011 at present. The search traffic is the integrated search bar in Firefox by default logs to go to Google and some of the advertising revenue from Google search goes back to Mozilla.
Mozilla is trying to diversify their income, even if Mr. Baker said, and a few small steps.
"We still have some diversification in research, for example in Russia," said Yandex compete with Google's services, they said. "We are looking for diversification, but we do not rush into it."
And she is comfortable with how the current situation because it does not force them to Mozilla Firefox in a sense, he will not take.
Have "We are looking into the product, because we want to. We have no further discussions with Google about what the product, "she said. "The research and related income is totally different from the relationship of product development."
Mozilla although sales rose only 5 percent from 2007 to 2008 compared to 12 percent last year, Baker is not affected. Equivalent to "It is our projections" of slow and steady growth, "she said." We're pretty consistent. “
Digging in the financial statement, it should be noted that the foundation is 79 million dollars turnover in the United States after an unrealized loss of $ 7.8 million of the value of their investments. As the economy improves, it is possible to recover part of their investment value.
The Foundation has more money than it loses. Costs were $ 49 million for the year 2008, according to the statement.
"We have sufficient resources to do what we expected, no need to save a little," said Baker. "For the moment we are not the ceiling. Our revenue is insufficient to meet our needs. We try to be careful with money. "
The Internal Revenue Service audited companies structure Mozilla - a foundation with two taxed, if not just for-profit subsidiaries. The Foundation publishes the test a year ago and the investigation is still ongoing, "said Baker.
The tax is an extremely slow. It is still an open debate, she said, and the Foundation takes the matter seriously. "We still have no clear idea of what the IRS thinks."
Two years ago, the Mozilla Foundation has released its second taxable subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging, which focused on e-mail client Thunderbird, and more recently on the Web Raindrop communications universal service. For now, the project receives its funding from the Firefox side of the house, but Baker plans to focus more on its financial significance when the quasi-final of Thunderbird 3 is done.
"The task now is to first ship Thunderbird 3rd WE expect to see that this year," Baker said. Mozilla is a total set up to be sustainable and not a slot machine, but Mozilla Messaging needs more revenue from its own finally, that sustainability will generate an expense.(cnet)
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