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BWF89
August 5th, 2005, 10:35 PM
After reading that I still have no idea what possible advantage changing from a foundation to a corperation could be.

http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/#q2
Kimm
August 5th, 2005, 10:53 PM
Its pretty similar to google. I supose a corporation will allways get a 'bigger' vote how things should look today. Google is a huge supporter of Open Source Code and Linux (look at the summer of Code). I find it great that Mozilla is changing into a corporation, it will promote linux developement and draw more atention to the open source and Linux/Unix community.
DJ_Max
August 6th, 2005, 01:01 AM
You can only accomplish so much as a not for profit foundation. Mozilla Corp. is now a taxable entity and are legally have more freedom of action than the former Mozilla Foundation. It'll make sense if you took a class in Ecomomics, or a business class.
rattaro
August 6th, 2005, 02:45 AM
After reading that I still have no idea what possible advantage changing from a foundation to a corperation could be.

http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/#q2


It's not CHANGING to a corporation. It's creating a corporation that is owned by the Foundation. Legally, there is a huge difference. So, we'll still have all the benefits of the non-profit organization, with all the benefits of the corporation.
polo_step
August 6th, 2005, 09:43 AM
I feel sure this has something with the foundation's money running out from AOL on 15 July last. The timing can't be a coincidence, though the significance is not clear.
YourSurrogateGod
August 6th, 2005, 02:32 PM
As long as the source for Mozilla browsers is open to the public, who cares. RedHat is a corporation and it allows people to tinker with Fedora's and other OSs code.
TravisNewman
August 6th, 2005, 04:01 PM
Canonical is a corporation ;)
YourSurrogateGod
August 6th, 2005, 04:04 PM
Canonical is a corporation ;)
What does it do?
TravisNewman
August 6th, 2005, 04:17 PM
What does it do?
Employs the Ubuntu developers.

See the copyright notices at the bottom of every Ubuntu page.
DJ_Max
August 6th, 2005, 08:02 PM
*cough* http://canonical.com/
poofyhairguy
August 6th, 2005, 08:20 PM
I feel sure this has something with the foundation's money running out from AOL on 15 July last. The timing can't be a coincidence, though the significance is not clear.

Interesting point. AOL needs Mozilla less than it thought it would.