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I really hope Mozilla manages to become financially independent of Google, whether through donations or some other revenue stream. They announced Directory Til

• mlissner 12y ago
  that plan was canceled.
  • dblohm7 12y ago
    That was a misinterpretation of Jonathan's blog post.
  • callahad 12y ago
    Unfortunately, there was a fair amount of misreporting over the weekend in response to Johnathan Nightingale's blog post here: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-experiments/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-e... The point of the post is that Mozilla is going ahead with experiments like Directory Tiles, but that no money will change hands during testing and development of those experiments. The commitment is that Mozilla will only move forward with seeking revenue if the experiments actually demonstrate added value for users, and that any revenue is collected in a way consistent with the Manifesto.
  • cpeterso 12y ago
    That is incorrect. See "New Tab Experiments" just for days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7725324
• thisisrobv 12y ago
  They pulled the plug on this pretty quickly. It's not really clear how they'll transform it in the future, but I think the larger point is still valid. They should not be dependent on a single source of revenue.