10 Facts About Mozilla Foundation

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Mozilla Foundation is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.

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The Mozilla Foundation was founded by the Netscape-affiliated Mozilla Organization.

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Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet".

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4.

The Mozilla Foundation is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, which lists 10 principles which Mozilla believes "are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life".

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Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a tax-paying entity, which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue.

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6.

In November 2017, Mozilla Foundation terminated its agreement with Yahoo two years earlier than planned.

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On January 28, 2020, the Mozilla Foundation announced that the Thunderbird project would henceforth be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corporation, in order to explore offering products and services that were not previously possible and to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations.

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In November 2017, however, Mozilla Foundation announced that it was switching back to Google as the default search engine.

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In 2006, after a request from Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD for funding from corporate entities which make a profit through the use of OpenSSH in their packaged distributions, the Mozilla Foundation donated $10, 000 to de Raadt and OpenBSD for OpenSSH development.

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The Mozilla Foundation found that without OpenSSH, much of the work done by developers would be through insecure and unsafe methods, and gave the funds as a thank you.

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