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Yes, and I suspect that Firefox is, at least, not going to work against the way it makes its money (ads) but the alternative browsers have bigger conflicts of i
by OGinparadise 14y ago
Yes, and I suspect that Firefox is, at least, not going to work against the way it makes its money (ads) but the alternative browsers have bigger conflicts of interest.
- Apocryphon 14y agoIt's interesting to see open-source foundations get corporate patrons. Like Ubuntu's relation with Amazon.
- laumars 14y agoThat's always been the case. (Linux < IBM, Oracle, Redhat. FreeBSD has corporate sponsors and so on). For any project to succeed, it's going to need some kind of funding. And often that means turning to big businesses, who have deeper pockets than all of us little people combined.
- laumars 14y agoOpera? Plus with their switch to Blink on the horizon, even the old complaints about rendering compatibility are soon to be moot.
- myko 14y ago> Duh! Chrome, Youtube, Maps, Android and virtually everything serve Google's $$$$ making efforts. Following the above logic wouldn't Opera not fit the bill either, considering it serves only to make money for Opera?
- laumars 14y agoIf Opera was non-free or pushed Opera owned services, then I would agree. But they don't. In fact, how does Opera generate income?
- OGinparadise 14y agoProbably by Google alone http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two-years-7000002997/ http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two... Google has bought placement on all non-MS major browsers and portals.