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Perhaps they had made an offer. We never would know. We don't even know the details of the Mozilla-Google deal. For all the openness that Google and Mozilla ap

• lkbm 14y ago
  Mozilla has been saying for years that they will use the best engine, and take that engine's money if it's available. If Bing were clearly better than Google, they'd switch and be taking Microsoft's money.
  • jonknee 14y ago
    They have said that during the time they are being offered the most money by the best search engine. That's easy. But Google keeps paying more which means Mozilla is after the highest bidder.
    • asadotzler 14y ago
      That is not how Mozilla's decision making works. There's considerably more to it than such simple economics. As a non-profit, we are here to create a public good. It's actually goods, plural, and services too. Firefox and other Mozilla products and services exist to promote the Mozilla mission, not to enrich the Mozilla organization. Yes. Sustainability is certainly a factor in some of our decision making. Mozilla would be foolish to ignore significant opportunities to increase its mission impact. But revenue for sustainability is not the sole or even the dominant factor in any major product decision at Mozilla.