Mitchell Baker just posted on her blog the 2006 revenue numbers for Mozilla. Once again, money is not how we measure success of the Mozilla project. Our impact on the industry, on the lives of our users are much more significant for us, but money ensures that we're sustainable and gives us options.
Coincidentally, I have found 2 quotes that really resonate with these news:
In the latest issue of Forbes[1], Mitchell is described like this:
She joined Netscape's legal staff in 1994, soon after the browser pioneer was created. She lasted through the company's downturn, precipitated by Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows, a move the Justice Department determined was illegal. But the trustbusters couldn't resurrect Netscape. (...) "We're like a nongovernmental organization, with a revenue stream", says Baker. And evidently more effective than a bunch of government antitrust attorneys.
Matt Asay (a CNet Blogger) concludes:
Microsoft may talk about "Wow," but Mozilla is delivering it. Mozilla is one of the most interesting open-source projects ever conceived, partly because of the technology, but mostly because of its organization. (...) Great results, Mitchell and the Mozilla team/community. You deserve the success.
Notes
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3 réactions
1 De universityupdate.com - 23/10/2007, 21:48
Mozilla Foundation 2006 revenue numbers
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2 De Pierre Col - UbicMedia - 23/10/2007, 23:07
La patronne
dit :
"Mozilla's revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation) for 2006 were $66,840,850, up approximately 26% from 2005 revenue of $52,906,602. As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google."
On peut en déduire que Google représente entre le tiers et la moitié ("the majority of [...] the vast majority") des financements de Mozilla : n'y a-t-il pas un risque futur pour l'indépendance de Mozilla ?
3 De Pierre Col - UbicMedia - 24/10/2007, 02:03
C'est pire que ce que je pensais : selon une notes du rapport financier - voir http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/d... note 8 en page 11 - c'est 85% du financement de Mozilla qui vient de Google.
Autre info : "Mozilla also spent some dough on its technical infrastructure, including a data center in Europe."
Tristan, tu n'auras bientôt plus besoin de ton hébergeur actuel ?