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And still doesn't. Who could expect Google to start funding Mozilla?
by M8 11y ago
And still doesn't. Who could expect Google to start funding Mozilla?
- dao- 11y agoGoogle didn't donate money to Mozilla (not large-scale anyway), it paid for being the default search engine just like it pays Apple and Opera, for instance. Very traditional business deal.
- Yoric 11y agoWell, it is traditional now, but it wasn't at the time.
- dao- 11y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean. It was a revenue sharing deal at that time and very orthodox at that. It was new in that it was the first time a search / advertising company paid a browser vendor, but that doesn't make it a one-sided charity act or some special kind of deal that could be summarized appropriately with "Google funding Mozilla", as this only tells half of the story.