In an interview conducted by Xu Zhiqiang, Blake Ross the creator of FireFox talked about Firefox, Mozilla foundation, Open Source and many interesting thoughts. Blog Ross who is a 20 years old college student at Stanford university started one of the most popular browsers today which is taking very high notority against Internet Explorer.
Being an open source product, will the Firefox be free forever? How do you and Mozilla Foundation get revenue from Firefox and other free products?
Firefox will be free forever. The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization, so its revenue goes toward improving its products. It makes money through the generous donations of satisfied users as well as more traditional corporate deals. Officials from the Foundation can comment further; I am not an employee.
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Blake, now you are a college student in Stanford and just 20 years old. At the similar age, Bill Gates launched Microsoft and Michael Dell set up Dell. Do you have the idea to make your own start-up and will you become a next Bill or Michael? If the opportunity comes now, will you drop out your college study?
I launched my own software company three months ago with a former Firefox teammate, and I’m taking the quarter off from Stanford to help grow it. I can’t say what we’re working on just yet.
