Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.
I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!
We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used - ever - as an example of what's possible.
My take is the Mozilla Foundation took a look at this and its reliance on the community and saw a willingness to create a commercial model, and they saw it as the most sustainable way to move forward. It's a way to kick-start adoption of their technologies.
Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.