The Mozilla Foundation

gemal writes "We're very pleased to announce the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization that will serve as the new home for mozilla.org. The Mozilla Foundation will continue mozilla.org's work of coordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase. With an independent non-profit as the legal home for Mozilla, we will also promote the distribution and adoption of Mozilla applications and technologies. In addition, we will raise funds to ensure Mozilla's long-term survival." Update: 07/15 21:47 GMT by T : Yablo writes "MozillaZine is running a blurb about how since earlier today, when the Mozilla Foundation was created, AOL has laid off all the Gecko developers. Ex-mozilla.org has a list of the casualties."

Comments

Sayonara

[tomblackwell]

We're pleased to be dumping Mozilla, er, forming the Mozilla Foundation. This money pit, er, worthy cause is something we'd love to see the back of, er support.

That sound you hear..

[Anonymous Coward]

..is the "BSD is dying" guy racing to find the Search and Replace function in his text editor.

Re:Two Questions:

[The Evil Couch]

if you donate $1,000 or more, you get a Mozilla Dinosaur plushie doll.

Re:Read the f***ing article!

[gokubi]

$2 million in cash

Hope they don't blow it all on a Superbowl ad.

Re:What about Apache?

[Anonymous Coward]

You need GNU tools to build Mozilla, so it should be called GNU/Mozilla. I've already changed my GNU/Linux GNU/Mozilla User-Agent string to reflect this.

Re:Wow

[jeremyds]

From the http://www.mozilla.org source:

@import url("/frontpage/nav4Sucks.css");

This wouldn't happen to be a reference to Netscape Navigator 4, would it?

The *perfect* advertising solution

[gosand]

Anyway, there is a lot of frustration out there and the Mozilla people really need to get the word out that they have a competitive product. Place some ads in the weekly magazines, some big newspapers, and get a buzz going.

Mozilla needs to start advertising - in popup ads. What better way to get your message across? "Hate pop-up ads like this one? Do you know there is a browser out there that allows you to block pop-up ads? It is called Mozilla, and we have a lot of other great features too. Mozilla is absolutely free! Try it out today. [url to mozilla.org]"

Yeah, it is a little like spammers sending you an email on how to stop spam, but I like the idea.

Re:looks like Moz is getting serious

[cprincipe]

If the IE shortcut gets deleted? "My internet is gone."

You say that like it's a bad thing if these folks can't get on the internet any more.