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This article seems to fundamentally misunderstand how businesses fund development. Google's payments to Apple have no direct impact on Safari funding decisions

This article seems to fundamentally misunderstand how businesses fund development. Google's payments to Apple have no direct impact on Safari funding decisions. It's just a revenue stream. Similarly for Mozilla. Microsoft... not even sure whether to begin with those claims. I think the article touches upon some important truths about Google's code contributions to chromium and financial payments to Mozilla and Apple. But correlating those with product development funding is just entirely plainly wrong.

mmooss 1y ago
> Google's payments to Apple have no direct impact on Safari funding decisions. It's just a revenue stream. Similarly for Mozilla. Microsoft... not even sure whether to begin with those claims. I don't understand. If Google is paying 80% of Mozilla browser development, how could stopping those payment not affect Mozilla funding decisions?