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Kinda wonder what happened after the yahoo buyout. Supposedly Mozilla could have kept all the cash from yahoo's search deal, but still solicited revenue from go
by Redoubts 6y ago
Kinda wonder what happened after the yahoo buyout. Supposedly Mozilla could have kept all the cash from yahoo's search deal, but still solicited revenue from google by making them the default instead. Where did that money go, and why not just earmark it for Firefox?
https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-s-insanely-bad-deal-to-pay-mozilla-375-million-a-1821043679 https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-s-insanely-bad-deal-to-pay-mozilla...
- steveklabnik 6y agoMy understanding is that there was a lawsuit over this https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-mozilla-legal-fight-over-2014-firefox-search-deal-2017-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-mozilla-legal-fight-ov... I have not heard about this in a very long time (note this article is from December 2017), but also, litigation takes a very long time.