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It's dangerous to depend on a single company (that also happens to have a competing product). What happens if the money stops coming?

• asldfhasdf2 6y ago
  > that also happens to have a competing product Firefox is a "feature" for Google Chrome. The day Google stops paying mozilla and mozilla close shop, they will get the same treatment Google itself set up in courts against Microsoft for IE6. It's pretty much protection money for their past selfs.
  • hu3 6y ago
    That's my theory as well. It's cheaper to keep mozilla barely alive than to pay lawyers and governments for anti-trust lawsuits around the globe. And they get to harvest search data from firefox users as a bonus.
  • smnthermes 6y ago
    Google doesn't actually need Mozilla to increase their search market share. When Mozilla switched to Yahoo in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1], and those who care about privacy switch to things such as DuckDuckGo anyways. [1] https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-firefox-users-switchback-google-212472 https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-fire...
• deleted 6y ago
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