Slashdot Mirror
IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship
ric482 writes "With the release of the Mozilla Foundation's 2007 financial report, questions have been raised by the IRS, who are due to perform an audit on the non-profit organization behind the massively popular Firefox browser.
Last year, the Foundation received $66 million of its total $75 million revenue (88 percent) from search engine maestros Google, so the IRS are looking for blood over the organization's tax exempt status. Back in 2006, Mozilla got $59.5 million from Google — around 85 percent of the organization's revenue.
Google and Mozilla are part of a 'you scratch my back, I'll pay your bills' sort of agreement, with the Google search bar firmly placed in the toolbar, and on the default homepage. Things were a bit rocky a couple of months back when Google unveiled the Beta-run of its Chrome browser, but Mozilla and Google hugged it out and sealed a deal that will last for another three years. That deal will expire in November 2011."
Damn, I was hoping that'd be a link to the wikipedia page for wikipedia.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
> Why is it that Firefox has been out since my
> early college days
Because you're very young.
Exactly. The issue here is that Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization, but Google clearly is not. Presumably IRS could be interested in exactly how close ties they have.
Yeah, but doesn't Google qualify for tax-exempt status as a religious organisation?
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
I believe you are thinking about Apple.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!