No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people to create a browser from the Netscape sources.

Mozilla says so itself

"The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. "

> > Mozilla, like most nonprofits, has always been run by activists

> No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people

“Developers and tech people” can also be activists, so that's not a contradiction, but...

> Mozilla says so itself

Except it doesn't in the material you quote, it says (emphasis added):

> It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet

It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.

> It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.

It explicitly says (emphasis added) "levels of innovation in the browser market."

Yes, that's the goal they wanted to harness the power of “thousands of programmers on the internet” for. The quote doesn't say anything about who the founders were beyond their activist goals.

I need to check that one, it will take some time and I might be wrong. I'm out of my water in the details of who made what decision to setup Mozilla.

Seriously though, what else do they even do? Thunderbird? Where does all the millions from Google actually go?

In organizing "events" and "conferences" that have nothing to do with their core-business.

And they have the nerve to beg for money in a very obtrusive way.

Good riddance.

All in all $4890 millions from 2005 to 2020 (majority from Google).

MDN is great resource.