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1. Comment - Mozilla prepares for bad times, and an audit

   (Nov 20, 2008 - 6:14 PM)

   Your story reads as if I offered up a knee-jerk reaction to Mozilla's latest disclosure. In fact, your quotation from me comes from http://www.scroogle.org/mozilla.html and you should have noticed that the date under my byline is January 29, 2006.
   
   I was me who tried for months to get the 2004 Form 990 from Mozilla Foundation, and when it was finally made available in January 2006, as required by law, I was the first to raise the issue of Mozilla's failure to classify its Google windfall as unrelated business income. This meant that Mozilla considered it tax-exempt, and they still haven't paid the taxes on it. In 2005 it was the same story. Starting in 2006 they began paying taxes because now they had the Mozilla Corporation to front for the Mozilla Foundation.
   
   I had an exclusive in January 2006 and tried hard to interest several journalists. Now that the IRS is apparently pursuing in this issue, you accuse me of hyperventilation nearly three years later. On the contrary, I'm burned out and bored with the issue.
   
   That's what I get for my trouble, apparently, but you needn't go out of your way to diss me.