The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Unlike the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation will be a taxable entity (that is, a for-profit rather than a non-profit) but the Foundation is eager to emphasise that it will pursue the same public benefit goals as the Foundation itself and will not be driven purely by revenue goals.

The change will not affect the day-to-day development of Mozilla, with the current system of module owners, drivers, reviewers and super-reviewers staying in place. End-users are unlikely to notice any difference either, though the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation will eventually have separate websites. At the moment, only Firefox and Thunderbird will be developed under the auspices of the Mozilla Corporation; other projects, such as Camino and SeaMonkey, will continue to be overseen by the Mozilla Foundation…

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Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation - MozillaZine Talkback

Mozilla Foundation Reorganization [RSS]

ZDNet UK is reporting that the next major release of Mozilla Firefox has been delayed and will now be known as Firefox 1.5 rather than 1.1. The upgrade is now set for a September release.

The Firefox Roadmap was updated on Wednesday by lead engineer Ben Goodger. It changed the plans from calling for an increasingly unrealistic 1.1 release this month to a 1.5 release in September. Firefox 1.5 Beta is now set for an August launch.

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* MozillaZine | Mozilla Firefox 1.1 Delayed, Renamed to 1.5

MozillaZine reports “There were several Mozilla-related talks at the XTech 2005 Conference, which took place in Amsterdam in the last week of May. All the Mozilla XTech presentations can now be viewed online and papers for most of the other XTech talks are also available. The notes from the W3C’s XHTML2 talk and Ian ‘Hixie’ Hickson’s WHATWG slides may be of particular interest to our readers.”

Robert “roc” O’Callahan has written a weblog post about his SVG/Canvas presentation, including a screenshot of an impressive demo he gave (Chase Phillips took a photograph of roc’s demo in action). See more links and stories from XTech 2005 at the link below:

* Mozilla at XTech 2005 - MozillaZine Talkback

* Planet XTech