Mozilla has been a non profit for as long as I can remember, but they were never fully backed by volunteers. They managed to drag Firefox out of Netscape before that collapsed and worked on it, together with Thunderbird, but they have always paid at least a few people to do the work.
You can still work on Firefox as a volunteer, though.
Mozilla has been a non profit for as long as I can remember, but they were never fully backed by volunteers. They managed to drag Firefox out of Netscape before that collapsed and worked on it, together with Thunderbird, but they have always paid at least a few people to do the work.
You can still work on Firefox as a volunteer, though.
Firefox is developed by a for-profit subsidiary.
That company actually abandoned Thunderbird years ago, within the past two years Thunderbird moved to its own (for profit) subsidiary.