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Over 27% of Firefox Patches Come from Volunteers

Posted by Zonk on from the those-who-make-our-browswer-awesome-be-saluted dept.

dolphinling writes "Everyone is aware that the Mozilla Corporation makes some money, and employs some people now. Google has full-time employees working on Firefox too, as do a number of other places. Yet despite that, in the six months up to Firefox 2 some 27% of the patches to Firefox were submitted by key volunteers, and those patches represent 24% of changes made to the source code. What's more, those numbers only counted contributers with 50 patches or more, so the actual numbers are probably quite a bit higher. It's good to see that even as Mozilla does so well in the business world, it can still keep its ties to the community so strong." They were running these number to find out who they need to start offering support to. So: contribute to Firefox, and you know you'll get a hand up. Nice work, folks.

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  1. making money by iambarry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone is aware that the Mozilla Corporation makes some money
    I am so out of touch. Must be getting old.

    How do they make money?

    1. Re:making money by mshmgi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sure, they give the software away, but they make it up in volume!

    2. Re:making money by MobyDisk · · Score: 2, Funny

      ctrl-l + tab! That's faster than move hand to mouse, move mouse to upper right corner, then down and left a little, then click, then move hands back to keyboard!
      danke! :)

    3. Re:making money by kogus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Using the mouse! That's faster than hitting [Windows Key]->"S"->[enter]->[enter], arrowing to "Accessibility options", pushing enter, then pushing [tab] nine times, then using the arrow to get to the "Mouse" tab, then pushing [alt-m] to turn on mousekeys, [alt-a] to apply the change, then using my number pad to navigate to the search bar and click it. danke! :)

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  2. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 3, Funny

    and those patches represent 24% of changes made to the source code.

    When do we get to rename FireFox to Apache Broswer?

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  3. Volunteer updates by sunderland56 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Over 75% of the "improvements" to Windows come from volunteers, too.


    Won't you please help support their work? Just visit any web site, you'll get some downloaded for free!

  4. I just tried typing "google xxx".... by StressGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    you damn near got me fired!

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  5. Even more remarkable by loafing_oaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even more remarkable: 13 percent of the patches were submitted by Al Gore.

    Ba-doom boom

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  6. Re:Mozilla makes $50 million a year by linuxci · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mozilla doesn't just make "some money", it makes $50 million a year from firefox.

    http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/01/03/firef ox-a-50-million-dollar-cash-cow Well with the current exchange rates they made the $50 million by someone in britian donating £50 :)

  7. Over 27% by Curate · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, so what would that be... damn near 28%?

  8. Go Fish by chimpo13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was a sad day for me when the Abe Vigoda: Dead or Alive monitor quit working. I liked the Abe face in the corner.

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