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Yes, but Google is buying service from Firefox, Google is not donating to Firefox.
by sanxiyn 6y ago
Yes, but Google is buying service from Firefox, Google is not donating to Firefox.
- edoceo 6y agoHm, the line between Foundation and Corporation is getting blurry from here
- sp332 6y agoIf only. Somehow there is no way for users to actually fund development of the browser.
- dkarras 6y agoGoogle can afford not buying that service though. Can Mozilla afford Google not being their customer? I genuinely don't know.
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoGiven that the default search engine in Firefox was Yahoo for a year or so when Google decided not to pay... sure, why not?
- exhilaration 6y agoI'm sure Microsoft would be happy to pay for Bing to be the default in Firefox.
- SilasX 6y agoThey could have, if they focused on their core mission the whole time and invested the excess in an endowment that made them independent of corporate donations.
- occz 6y agoIf Google don't pay for Firefox's continued existence, they'll have to deal with anti-trust lawsuits over their Chrome market share. That's essentially why they keep paying.