[spinningslate]

Any accountants in the room?

It'd be good to get an informed view on the financial statement. In particular, the oft-spoken view that Mozilla is so critically dependent on Google funding that it is, in practice, prevented from doing anything that would displease big G.

[NlightNFotis]

You don't need an accountant for that - you can read the financial statement (this one is pretty simple).

From about $593mil revenue in their income statement (page 4), $510mil is derived from _Royalties_.

Later, on page 13, they explain what _Royalties_ consists of, and I quote:

> Royalties - Mozilla provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation. Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines incorporated in the Firefox web browser.

Now, I leave it to your judgement if you think that a company that derives 86% of its revenue from the above is dependent on Google ;-)