 Mozilla
Corporation, United States,
For its outstanding
contribution towards the development of world-class Internet Technologies and
Applications;
Representative: Ms Mitchell Baker, President and CEO
Mozilla is not a traditional software company. It is a global community and
public benefit organization dedicated to improving the Internet experience for
people everywhere.
It works in the open through a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative
process to coordinate the development and marketing of Mozilla technologies and
products as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. This
unique structure enables Mozilla to financially support and cultivate
competitive, viable community innovation.
Mission
Its mission is to develop world-class, open source, fully standards-compliant
Internet technologies and applications and to drive broad adoption of its
products, so that it can ensure people will continue to have meaningful choices
for web browsers, e-mail software and more.
The corporation partners with companies and organizations that share the same
vision, ranging from peers in the open source community, start-up companies and
some of the world’s leading IT vendors, including IBM, Sun Microsystems and Red
Hat.
Mozilla’s software
Mozilla’s software is open source, not only available for download free of
charge, but anyone can have access to the source code and may modify and
redistribute its software subject to the Mozilla Public License.
The code is free, but Mozilla does strictly enforce its trademark rights in
order to keep them valid. Its trademarks include the names Mozilla, Firefox,
Thunderbird, etc.
Products
All its products are available free of charge for Windows, Mac and Linux
computers in more than 35 languages. The Mozilla Firefox Web browser is enjoyed
by tens of millions of people worldwide. And Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client
has set the standard for cross-platform communications, with advanced junk mail
filtering.
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