Mozilla Foundation

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Mozilla Foundation
FormationJuly 15, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07-15)
FounderMozilla Organization
Type501(c)(3)
20-0097189
Registration no.C2543436
OriginsMountain View, California
Region
United States
Products
Mark Surman
Nabiha Syed
Brian Behlendorf, Helen Turvey, Mitchell Baker, Alondra Nelson, Amy Keating, Nicole Wong, Edwin Macharia, Raffi Krikorian, Zain Habboo
Subsidiaries
Revenue (2020[1])
$441 million
Staff80 (in 2019)
Volunteers (2019)
1000+
Websitefoundation.mozilla.org

The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, operates critical infrastructure, and controls Mozilla trademarks and copyrights.[2] It owns two taxable subsidiaries: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs many Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, and MZLA Technologies Corporation, which employs developers to work on the Mozilla Thunderbird email client and coordinate its releases. The Mozilla Foundation was founded by the Netscape-affiliated Mozilla Organization.[2] The organization is currently based in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California, United States.

The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization that promotes openness, innovation and participation on the Internet."[3] The Mozilla Foundation is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, which lists 10 principles which Mozilla believes "are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life."[4]

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  3. ^ "The Mozilla Foundation". Mozilla Foundation. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2011.
  4. ^ "The Mozilla Manifesto". Mozilla Foundation. Archived from the original on October 18, 2019. Retrieved December 16, 2011.