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They don't have to cough up $5 million to support Flash. That's a priniciple I can understand.

I wouldn't be surprised if they'd spent millions promoting Theora to the exclusion of all else (they reinvent the wheel by linking directly with liboggplay, instead of using libavcodec or the platform DS/QT/GS like everyone else)

The salaries of all the cheerleaders and wheel-reinventors have to add up to something substantial. They've got piles of Google cash — they stopped begging for donations after their $60m search-referral windfall in 2006 got publicized, but they've gotten secretive about their financials after that.

Google will help you find more recent financial details. The 2008 financials are right here: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-a...

Thanks, that's a lot clearer than it used to be.

I had found the 1099s a while back, but they stopped showing the whole picture after the Mozilla Corporation was created to take the revenue.

I have little confidence in the stability of most video decoders in the face of corrupt data. The smaller the dependency set here, the better for stability.

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