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Mozilla's Response to Proposed Remedies in U.S. vs. Google LLC
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- Kelteseth 2y agoAs much as I love Firefox, the only thing I can read here is: We have failed to diversify, and we would really like our yearly $400 million to pay our CEO
- jeffwask 2y agoFrom 2 million to 7 million over 4 years while every metric continued to fall.
- alabastervlog 2y agoThe really frustrating thing is that I'd have happily helped them stagnate, and to fail to save sufficiently for a rainy day, for half that.
- ndegruchy 2y agoIt doesn't take a lot to read between the lines here. It's not like selling off Chrome would somehow invalidate the Open Source Chromium project in any way.
- I_Am_Nous 2y agoThat, and the unfortunate truth that if Firefox only exists because Google needs a fig leaf against monopoly charges, it hasn't proven its value in enough ways for it to stick around. I love Firefox, but the market in general has centralized on Chromium for a lot of reasons. Philosophical reasons to exist are great, but philosophy doesn't pay the bills, it seems.
- Ukv 2y agoFeels like the underlying issue is Mozilla's dependence on Google. I can understand why Mozilla took and don't want to give up the search deal - it gives significant funding for only a minor concession, so it's easy to justify as pragmatic/ends-justifying-the-means perspective ("this small compromise or no Firefox") - but here it puts them in an awkward position of needing to argue against attempts to break up Google's search monopoly.
- jqpabc123 2y agoCorrection: Google's response to proposed remedies. Mozilla is just the mouthpiece.