I don't have any insider knowledge but: > your only lever is to negotiate (from a position of weakness, because they're much bigger) a deal every 3 years in or

I don't have any insider knowledge but: > your only lever is to negotiate (from a position of weakness, because they're much bigger) a deal every 3 years in order to keep paying your employees. It's entirely possible that Mitchell Baker was responsible for getting hundreds of millions of dollars extra for Firefox when they switched search provider and then back, invoking a clause in their agreement with Yahoo. Which seems like some pretty skilful playing of a bad hand.