In fiscal 2007 we got from Firefox etc. "About 7.1 billion yen (75 million dollars)", how do you make money?

The one that boasts the largest share of browsers used to view pages on the Internet is Microsoft's "Internet Explorer", The second place is" non-profit organization Mozilla Foundation's "Firefox"Has become. According to the recently announced financial report for fiscal 2007, sales from Firefox etc. in fiscal 2007 are "Approximately 7.1 billion yen (75 million dollars)That thing.

What kind of structure is the company making profit and what kind of financial situation is it?

Details are as below.
Mozilla 2007 Financial FAQ

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· Total income
75 million dollars (about 7.1 billion yen): 12% up since last year's 2006 fiscal year was 67 million dollars

· Currency of profit
Most of the sales by the search window in the upper right corner of Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation, which is developing Firefox, has a contract with Google, and when a person goes to Google by searching with Firefox, some money is paid from Google in return. Originally,It was scheduled to end in November 2008 but it will be extended further and the contract will continue until November 2011That's right. He also manages an affiliate program online and he is also earning money from the Mozilla Store and others.

How much is Google dependent on Firefox etc.?
Of this total revenue, indeed88% revenue from GoogleIt is becoming. In other words, the current Firefox and Thunderbird will be in danger of survival if the contract is canceled from Google. Google has already announced "Google Chrome" as a proprietary browser, but since market share is not so high, there seems to be no worry that support to Firefox will be terminated immediately.

Firefox and the Google team are in a cooperative relationship with anti-phishing featuresFirefox start pageWe are in tie-up with.

· How much does the Mozilla Foundation spend?
$ 33 million (about 3.1 billion yen): 68% up since last year's 2006 fiscal year was 20 million dollars.

· What expense was spent on what?
"People" and "Infrastructure" are two main.

· How many people are working and how much is the labor cost?
Personnel expenses are paid to 150 persons who work full-time and part-time people all over the world. This accounts for 80% of total expenses. Many labor costs are concentrated in the US, Canada and Europe, and China, Japan, New Zealand, and South America are not concentrated much. It seems that Firefox is supposed to be centered in Europe and the United States as well. Clearly because the page, the campaign, everything is all led by the West, so somehow I was worried about that, but what was blatant up here ... ....

· How much asset is being used?
$ 99 million (about 9.4 billion yen): Since it was 74 million dollars last year in fiscal 2006, it is up 34%.

· How much donation and support did you do?
Mozdev support, open-source screen reader operating in Windows "NVDA", GNOME, support for Mozilla related educational activities at Seneca University, as well as other open source development, Bugzilla community, Creative Commons, Oregon State University and others He said that he donated "322 326.40 dollars (about 30.57 million yen)" to individuals and others.

· How much Firefox successfully spread?
The number of users of Firefox on a daily basis was 27.9 million in fiscal 2006, 48.9 million in 2007, and it increased to 67.7 million as of October 2008. To the extent of reference, SeaMonkey has 5 million people and Thunderbird has 5 million to 10 million users.

How far is it and how long will it last for Firefox and other advanced advances? In any case, it is a fact that it is "Doggy to Google" state, so it is the most important point how to eliminate this dependency state.