Time to pay for firefox ?

With Firefox Hot, Mozilla Goes For-Profit Route
Updated: The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation has set up a commercial subsidiary to cash in on the popularity of its flagship Firefox browser.

With its flagship Firefox emerging as a legitimate alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Internet Explorer Web browser, the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation wants to cash in on the revenue-generation possibilities.

The open-source group on Wednesday announced a major reorganization that includes the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit subsidiary to ride the Firefox gravy train.

Mozilla Corp., which will operate out of the Foundation's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, has been set up as a wholly owned commercial subsidiary to generate revenues to support development, testing, and productization of the various Mozilla open-source technologies.

\"The broad adoption of Mozilla Firefox has created significant economic value both in Firefox itself and in a commercial ecosystem that is developing around Firefox,\" Mozilla said in a statement.

Read more here: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,18432...405dtx1k0000599

ttp://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/47217/

post your thoughts

I highly doubt Firefox will ever cost money to use. It is open source after all.

Last edited by Josh on Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:47 am; edited 1 time in total

And if it does, I'm going to stop using it. How are they going to get the people that already have it, pay for it?

I use Opera anyway.

Last edited by kahrn on Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:11 am; edited 1 time in total

I think you have been greatly mis-understood.
The mozilla organisation is only doing this because it will benefit them, and they will have greater access to things they need.

The change is mostly a legal/tax thing to avoid the problems of pursuing revenue-generating avenues while remaining non-profit. There will be no change to the development process and end-users won't notice much difference either.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/03/1256216&tid=154

O hey guys im not saying this is fact. This was a cut and paste from HWA. Just thought yall like to coment on it.

Depending on the cost id definatly buy it, i NEVER in my whole life want to use Increment Exploder (Internet Explorer) ever again, It rubbish hehe im sure you all agree :D

Last edited by Josh on Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:04 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'll just find another good browser if I have to pay for Firefox. Not IE, though. I said Good. ;)

How does it compare? I haven't worked with Opera at all.

Sounds good. I will.