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Look - I cant claim that there weren't repeated and deliberate bad decisions, and I can't claim that being funded mainly by google gives the best incentives. B
by spencerflem 3y ago
Look - I cant claim that there weren't repeated and deliberate bad decisions, and I can't claim that being funded mainly by google gives the best incentives.
But it is really a nonprofit in that (like the sibling says) the corp is fully owned by a nonprofit, not public shareholders.
And its not like google doesn't get anything out of their $. They get set as the default engine. Apple gets paid hundreds of billions by google for this. So its not like Google is paying Firefox for control over it's development.
Like, seriously,
they're not perfect but its a pretty wide jump in behavior between it and chrome
- TylerE 3y agoNon-profit status and being publicly traded are orthogonal. There are tons of for-profit companies that aren’t publicly traded.
- spencerflem 3y agothe point is - the corporation is fully owned and controlled by a nonprofit so it is essentially a part of the nonprofit. if you don't see this as a meaningful difference, I don't know how to help ya.