> -----Original Message----- > From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 August 2005 01:32 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the > scenes payola > > [snip] > And if my theory holds water in any way, then the Mozilla Foundation > really would have had no choice but to spin off a for-profit > subsidiary... after all, if the money is rolling in (via perfectly > legitimate and socially acceptable means), it has to go somewhere, and > it can't go to the N-F-P foundation beyond a certain level.
An accountant could probably advise better, but I would think that there are appropriate vehicles (e.g. NfP trusts) which would allow financial profits that cannot be expensed in activities supporting the Moz Organisation objectives within the financial year, to be stored and in turn invested thereafter both in for profit and not schemes so that they may grow and prosper. Making an economic profit is not a problem in itself. Compromising Moz.Org./OSS objectives in seeking to derive this profit creates a conflict of interest and therefore it becomes a problem. Of course this may not be the case with the FF/Google syndication, I don't really know. Perhaps what we have here is a strategic failure; i.e. Moz could not come up with valid ideas to promptly expense the profit in support of the development of FF and other products and therefore were forced to spin-off. --------------------- [OT] Holly, you mention that you have a zillion search engines incorporated in your browser . . . 8O Where do you get them from? How can these be added to a browser? [/OT] -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
