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The investment income comes from three primary sources:

* '''Publicly traded securities & other investments''': Mozilla maintains a portfolio of investments that generate annual returns.

*'''Publicly traded securities & other investments''': Mozilla maintains a portfolio of investments that generate annual returns.

* '''Program-related investments & royalties''': The Foundation earned '''$18,639,553''' in royalties from licensing its intellectual property to support open-source projects.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozilla_Foundation_-_Full_Filing_-_Nonprofit_Explorer_-_ProPublica.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref>

*'''Program-related investments & royalties''': The Foundation earned '''$18,639,553''' in royalties from licensing its intellectual property to support open-source projects.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozilla_Foundation_-_Full_Filing_-_Nonprofit_Explorer_-_ProPublica.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref>

* '''Dividends and interest''': Mozilla also earns investment income from dividend-paying stocks and interest-bearing assets.

*'''Dividends and interest''': Mozilla also earns investment income from dividend-paying stocks and interest-bearing assets.

Mozilla's reliance on investment income rather than direct contributions has raised questions about how responsive Mozilla Foundation is to the viability & market share of Mozilla software & its mission, given its ability to survive & continue paying high executive compensation regardless of whether work towards the core mission is being performed in a competent fashion.

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Completely free alternative browsers are currently under active development, some of which show promise to become viable truly independent open source browser engines in the forseeable future. These include the [https://ladybird.org/ Ladybird] browser initiated by SerenityOS creator Andreas Kling.

As for Thunderbird, some open source soft forks such as [https://www.betterbird.eu/ BetterBird] are available.

==References==

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 The investment income comes from three primary sources:
-* '''Publicly traded securities & other investments''': Mozilla maintains a portfolio of investments that generate annual returns.
+*'''Publicly traded securities & other investments''': Mozilla maintains a portfolio of investments that generate annual returns.
-* '''Program-related investments & royalties''': The Foundation earned '''$18,639,553''' in royalties from licensing its intellectual property to support open-source projects.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozilla_Foundation_-_Full_Filing_-_Nonprofit_Explorer_-_ProPublica.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref>
+*'''Program-related investments & royalties''': The Foundation earned '''$18,639,553''' in royalties from licensing its intellectual property to support open-source projects.<ref>[https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozilla_Foundation_-_Full_Filing_-_Nonprofit_Explorer_-_ProPublica.pdf Mozilla Foundation 2023 Form 990]</ref>
-* '''Dividends and interest''': Mozilla also earns investment income from dividend-paying stocks and interest-bearing assets.
+*'''Dividends and interest''': Mozilla also earns investment income from dividend-paying stocks and interest-bearing assets.
 Mozilla's reliance on investment income rather than direct contributions has raised questions about how responsive Mozilla Foundation is to the viability & market share of Mozilla software & its mission, given its ability to survive & continue paying high executive compensation regardless of whether work towards the core mission is being performed in a competent fashion.
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 Completely free alternative browsers are currently under active development, some of which show promise to become viable truly independent open source browser engines in the forseeable future. These include the [https://ladybird.org/ Ladybird] browser initiated by SerenityOS creator Andreas Kling.
+As for Thunderbird, some open source soft forks such as [https://www.betterbird.eu/ BetterBird] are available.
 ==References==