>Have you ever heard of a for profit company gifting traffic to their direct competitor? The #3 browser (Firefox) is (was?) massively funded by a half-billion-

>Have you ever heard of a for profit company gifting traffic to their direct competitor? The #3 browser (Firefox) is (was?) massively funded by a half-billion-per-year agreement from the #1 browser's maker (Google) to add Chrome as the default search engine. Sure, they could pull that deal. Unless you think it's a perfectly balanced deal, though, that feels like one for-profit company gifting traffic to their competitor (either Google giving money to Firefox, or Firefox giving traffic to Google). It's more niche, but a lot of companies in my market donate to or fund their competitors for the sake of innovation and growing the pie. Contrary to popular belief, for-profit companies (even those with scary board members in a competitive market) don't inherently have to be cutthroat.