@Andre, for someone reading this blog, you sound awfully like a clueless executive from some big corp. Mozilla is not just some company, it's a non-profit that many people join despite the lower salaries because they believe in it; furthermore, it's an organizer of a big community of volunteers. You could buy the name and trademarks, but you can't buy the trust and passion of all those people.
You can't build a successful community project by dumping money into it. We've seen the failures of Nepomuk and other EU-sponsored projects. If the EU wants to help, they should instead offer to find Mozilla as it is, and give them independence from Google.
@Andre, for someone reading this blog, you sound awfully like a clueless executive from some big corp. Mozilla is not just some company, it's a non-profit that many people join despite the lower salaries because they believe in it; furthermore, it's an organizer of a big community of volunteers. You could buy the name and trademarks, but you can't buy the trust and passion of all those people.
You can't build a successful community project by dumping money into it. We've seen the failures of Nepomuk and other EU-sponsored projects. If the EU wants to help, they should instead offer to find Mozilla as it is, and give them independence from Google.