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I wish there was a page on mozilla.org with the title, 'This is how Mozilla makes money'.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2013/f...

> How does Mozilla generate revenue?

> The majority of Mozilla’s revenue is generated from search and commerce functionality included in our Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and others. Mozilla’s reported revenues also include very important individual and corporate donations and grants, as well as other forms of income from our investable assets.

I believe Mozilla should start an advertising network and offer cloud services like webmail, docs, blogs, photos, etc so people create an everlasting bond with their properties while maintaining the open web motto they are already known and praised for.

An extra couple billion dollars a year wouldn't hurt either.

And, you know, buy a video service and make some glasses too. All in the name of not doing evil, right?

Dont forget maps, reviews, and a social network.

Also, cars.

And drop the services we like a lot.

Just a nice customizable home page would be great, something like My Yahoo or the defunct iGoogle but better. Provide nice calendar and weather widgets and a good API to develop more and you're good to go. Insert ads in the widgets at will. There's not much in the way of competition either.

The Mozilla Foundation publishes an annual report[1] on that, which includes statements on its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2013/

Seems like Mozilla is more of an investment company than a software corp.

Valid. Its nice to know where the money flows from. At the same time, I could care less how they make the money and more about 'this is how Mozilla disrupts'.

That, if we get down to it, is what they were originally set out to do.

Try: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/documents/

It has their financial statements.

I was thinking the same thing today. I agree.

It's tough to read that post and not think 'how do these people make money?' Not as though there's some reason why they shouldn't — it's just not clear how it works.

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