No arguments there. But Mozilla are not exactly down to their last penny.
The source code is not open for anyone to improve, only to suggest or comment upon. Suggestions still have to be channelled through the main operator and considered before even considered for incorporation..
I do think, without offence, that it is irrelevant that Microsoft employers are paid more (Are they? Mozilla do not have to pay taxes, by special arrangement - Microsoft pay through the nose)
Mozilla, as we know, are almost totally funded by google and partners such as the mighty "Amazon". They are far from boke, as can be seen from some of theirr handouts last year:
October 21, 2010: Renewing last year's support, Mozilla
has offered $10,000 to
GNOME to further its work on softwareaccessiblity.
August 30, 2010: Mozilla has offered
$76,374 toNortheastern University to fund the PhD research of DimitriosVardoulakis.
August 30, 2010: OWASP has been offered a
$5,000 sponsorship in unrestricted funds forgeneral support to their valuable open source project.
August 25, 2010: Mozilla received a report on the activities funded by our
a $10,000 grant to
Ushahidi in Chile. Ushahidi provides anopen source platform that enables citizen reporters to coordinate criticalinformation in times of crisis. This grant will helped Chileans and the Chileangovernment to have fast, reliable communication in the wake of the disastrousearthquake that hit on February 27, 2010.
But, I do not wish to attack Mozilla. Their products are great, I just, at this stage, prefer IE as a browser, as I have always used it without problems.
However, I do feel apprehension, as their contract with Google is coming closer to renewal. With Googles interests turning towards their own style of browser, perhaps they will not wish to finance what they will then see as the opposition?