Each Saturday for the next several weeks, I’m dedicating the day’s post to featuring a frugal cause, a non-profit that provides something free for others to use. Last week’s feature was the Creative Commons, publisher of the free Creative Commons licenses for creative media. This week’s frugal cause is the Mozilla Foundation.
The Mozilla Foundation was established in July 2003 to provide open-source software for the public benefit. Mozilla’s best known product is the open-source Firefox web browser , holding about 15% of the web browser market. However, Mozilla produces a number of other excellent products , including the Thunderbird email client, SeaMonkey , an all-in-one internet application suite, and Bugzilla , a popular web-based bug-tracking tool.
I’ve written before about the greatness of Firefox and the many reasons to use it, so I won’t repeat them here. (There are similar great reasons to use Mozilla’s other products, which I’ll cover in future posts.) Unfortunately, great software doesn’t develop itself, so keeping the projects going falls to donations from appreciative users. As an appreciative user, I send regular donations to the Mozilla Foundation , and I encourage others to do so if you enjoy using Mozilla’s products.
And of course, for those of us inclined towards the geekier wing of fashion, there’s always something great to be found in the Mozilla Store , so have a look, and tell the world you browse smartly and support the best in free software.