Mozilla Beats The Recession Mozilla Posts 5% Revenue Gain In 2008

The Mozilla Corporation, the for-profit business arm of Mozilla, has
posted a 5% revenue increase, last year. Mozilla is best known for being
the manager of popular web browser Firefox. Most of Mozilla's income
comes from deals from search providers.
Mozilla gets its revenue through deals with Google and other search
providers, and Mozilla alsoย receivesย a cutback from the search
providers every time one of their users does a search through Firefox. A
small number of their revenue is generated through investments and
private donations, and their released records indicated that they (like
everybody) had their investments weakened by the recession.
Still, even with one of their revenue streams weakened, Mozilla posted
$78 million USD in revenue, up from 5% from 2007. Of that money, Mozilla
spent $49 million USD, with most of that ($31 mil) going to software
development costs for the web browser, like you'd expect.
They also spent $6 million on marketing (what happened to the
touchy-feely open source 'spread Firefox' campaign?) and $9 million on
general costs. $1 million was given away in grants and awards to other
open-source projects. In total, Mozilla made $30 million USD, last year,
not bad for a company who's products are given away for free.
Ars Technica doesn't want you to worry about Chrome. Although Google
provides a large share of Mozilla's profits, Google committed itself to
its deal with Firefox through 2011. According to Wikipedia, Firefox (by
far) has the largestย market shareย of the non-Internet Explorer browsers.