Книга: Open Source Project Foundations: Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, Xiph.org Foundation, Kuali Foundation, Blender Foundation

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, Xiph Foundation, Kuali Foundation, Blender Foundation, Gnome Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Open Source Applications Foundation, Floss Manuals, Parrot Foundation, X Foundation, Firebird Foundation, Python Software Foundation, Open Bioinformatics Foundation, the Perl Foundation, Openbsd Foundation. Excerpt: The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate key infrastructure and control trademarks and other intellectual property. It owns two taxable for-profit subsidiaries: the Mozilla Corporation, which employs several Mozilla developers and coordinates releases of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, and Mozilla Messaging, Inc., which primarily develops the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The Mozilla Foundation is based in the Silicon Valley city of Mountain View, California, USA. The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as 'a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet'. Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China are non-profit organizations whose mission is to help promote and deploy Mozilla products and projects. They are independent of, but affiliated with, the Mozilla Foundation. On February 23, 1998, Netscape created the Mozilla Organization to co-ordinate the development of the Mozilla Application Suite. It consisted mostly of Netscape employees but operated independently of Netscape. The Mozilla Organization claimed to be developing the Mozilla browser for testing purposes only, and not for use by end users. This led to the creation of Beonex Communicator, which released end-user ver... More: booksllc.net/?id=382489