Comment by steveklabnik
8 years ago
There is a non-profit (The Mozilla Foundation, affectionately referred to as "mofo") which owns a for-profit (The Mozilla Corporation, known as "moco") as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
The corporation is governed by the same rules as the foundation, compare https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/
> Our work is guided by the Mozilla Manifesto.
to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
> The Mozilla Corporation is guided by the principles of the Mozilla Manifesto.
(I'm an employee of moco, I've always felt like I'm working at a values-based rather than a profit-based organization, personally.)
I guess my point is that the profit status might not be the most important thing to determine what values your organization has.