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On the Mozilla Foundation and the search giant Google have extended their partnership, which now expires in November 2011. Through this agreement, Mozilla place Google as default search engine on its Firefox browser, and a dedicated homepage. In return, Google reverse the foundation a portion of revenues generated by the traffic search from the browser.With about 57 million in 2006, Google has funded the foundation up to 85% of its total income (66.8 million dollars). This time, the agreement is planned for a period of three years (against two years ago). “We renew our partnership with Google for three years [...] we therefore assure stability of our revenues,” said Mitchell Baker, president of the foundation, which is satisfied with the discussions at the summit Firefox Over last July .
In 2005, the foundation has created the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the group, in order to be eligible for these cash while maintaining its status of non-profit organization. However, within the open source community, which contains many volunteers (developers, translators, testers …), some regret the lack of transparency in financial terms.
These funds are used, inter alia, to hire teams of developers, to pay the bandwidth and modernize the infrastructure of the company. However, despite this funding than enough - in 2006 the estimated expenses of the foundation would be $ 20 million - Mozilla continues to accept donations. The foundation has received $ 2 million from AOL and 300 000 dollars Kaport Mitch, the founder of Lotus.
Anyway Mitchell Baker remains optimistic about the future of Mozilla: “We can improve the way we work and what we are doing [...] to be effective, we must give the best of ourselves and do even better than now. Our challenges are real, as are our opportunities and our capabilities. “