PopOut! Singapore: Mozilla earned USD60million in 2005 from search box
Mozilla Japan director of marketing and partner relations, Gen Kanai, revealed yesterday the earnings of Mozilla from the search box alone and how the funds were also re-distributed to fellow Mozilla developers for projects.
Visitors to PopOut! Singapore, organised by The Digital Movement, was also treated to a preview of Firefox3.0.
“In 2005, we published an earnings for Mozilla about USD60million,” said Gen.
“That earnings are primary driven by the search box with our relationships from Google and Yahoo worldwide, and with local search engines, like Amazon Japan, etc.”
“We donate earnings to our community members helping us and to other open-source projects.”
Gen demonstrated new features of Firefox3.0 which grew a huge applause and “wows” from the audience.
“We will be providing off-site features for Firefox3.0, more malware protection and be adding new features around SSL,” said Gen.
Demo of SVG in Firefox3.0
“Future versions of Firefox will include have a scalable vector graphics for both images and videos which will allow users to move and resize them on the browser without a need for a plugin.”
A question was thrown to Gen about what motivates him to work for Mozilla which he answered that innovation was his biggest muse.
“The motivation is the chance to work on projects that affects over 100million users worldwide ,” said Gen.
” I really believe Firefox and other Mozilla projects are a benefit to everybody in the Internet.
“When IE was only the dominant player for 6 years, a lot of those innovation stopped for that period of time.
“But now that there is competition in the browser space, all of us are now innovating and this will benefit all of us, the Internet users.”
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