Comments on: Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/788/will-success-or-all-that-money-from-google-spoil-firefox/ The New Thing Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:55:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stevehttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/788/will-success-or-all-that-money-from-google-spoil-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 Steve Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:21:49 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=788#comment-1108 Great article. I think as long as firefox stays an open source it will be ok.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1108">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Great article. I think as long as firefox stays an open source it will be ok.

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]]> By: Douglas Arellaneshttp://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/788/will-success-or-all-that-money-from-google-spoil-firefox/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Douglas Arellanes Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:58 +0000 http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/?p=788#comment-1107 Public-private partnerships in the open source world are actually pretty common - the excellent Dutch content management system MMBase comes to mind. But that would actually require knowing something about the topic one is writing about, I guess.What bugs me, though, is that while the Mozilla Foundation is amassing a huge warchest, it really isn't scaling its philanthropy efforts to put that money to use. Not exactly sure why that is - maybe because by throwing money at open source developers it would create more problems than it's worth?For my own part, I've tried on several occasions to approach the Mozilla Foundation to get them to fund open source advocacy projects in the developing world. I never even got an email back saying, "meh."<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1107">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Public-private partnerships in the open source world are actually pretty common – the excellent Dutch content management system MMBase comes to mind. But that would actually require knowing something about the topic one is writing about, I guess.

What bugs me, though, is that while the Mozilla Foundation is amassing a huge warchest, it really isn’t scaling its philanthropy efforts to put that money to use. Not exactly sure why that is – maybe because by throwing money at open source developers it would create more problems than it’s worth?

For my own part, I’ve tried on several occasions to approach the Mozilla Foundation to get them to fund open source advocacy projects in the developing world. I never even got an email back saying, “meh.”

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