Mozilla Foundation

Extracted Attributes

• Type

  Non-profit organization

• Founded

  2003-07-15

• Co-founder

  Mitchell Baker

• Headquarters

  Mountain View, California, United States

• Seed Funding

  $2,000,000 USD (from Netscape)

• Guiding Document

  Mozilla Manifesto

• Initial Staff Size

  Approximately 10 employees

Timeline

• The Mozilla Foundation is established as a non-profit with $2 million in seed funding from Netscape. (Source: Mozilla Foundation Website)

  2003-07-15

• The Mozilla project expands globally with new communities established in Europe, Japan, and China. (Source: Mozilla Foundation Website)

  2004-01-01

• The Mozilla Corporation is established as a wholly owned taxable subsidiary to guide product development and revenue generation. (Source: Mitchell Baker Blog)

  2005-08-03

• The Mozilla Foundation's corporate structure is highlighted in the All-In Podcast as a transparent alternative to OpenAI's convoluted model. (Source: All-In Podcast Episode 169)

  2024-03-01

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, operates critical infrastructure, and controls Mozilla trademarks and copyrights. It owns two taxable subsidiaries: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, and MZLA Technologies Corporation, which employs developers to work on the Mozilla Thunderbird email client and coordinate its releases. The Mozilla Foundation was founded by the Netscape-affiliated Mozilla Organization. The organization is currently based in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California, United States. The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet". 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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• Mozilla Foundation - Wikipedia

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• The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability - Mitchell Baker

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• Discover Mozilla Foundation's Story & Vision

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• History of the Mozilla Project

  In 2003, the Mozilla project created the Mozilla Foundation, an independent non-profit organization supported by individual donors and a variety of companies. The new Mozilla Foundation continued the role of managing the daily operations of the project and also officially took on the role of promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the internet.