Comments on: Google and Mozilla – A new relationship http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/07/26/google-and-mozilla-%e2%80%93-a-new-relationship/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Kasting http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/07/26/google-and-mozilla-%e2%80%93-a-new-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-198217 Peter Kasting Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:40:48 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=18386#comment-198217 "Mozilla is the lone standard-bearer of the Open Source philosophy, in which everyone can pitch in and anyone can get a copy of and customize the code." What? Google Chrome, just like Mozilla Firefox, is buildable (in a not-official-branded version) from a completely open source codebase. “Mozilla is the lone standard-bearer of the Open Source philosophy, in which everyone can pitch in and anyone can get a copy of and customize the code.”

What? Google Chrome, just like Mozilla Firefox, is buildable (in a not-official-branded version) from a completely open source codebase.

]]> By: foobar http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/07/26/google-and-mozilla-%e2%80%93-a-new-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-198201 foobar Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:34:28 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=18386#comment-198201 "There is more at stake here than just the numbers. Everyone else is in the game for the money. Mozilla is the lone standard-bearer of the Open Source philosophy, in which everyone can pitch in and anyone can get a copy of and customize the code. Mozilla operates in a completely different world that its competitors." Isn't chrome (based on chromium ) not open source "product"? “There is more at stake here than just the numbers. Everyone else is in the game for the money. Mozilla is the lone standard-bearer of the Open Source philosophy, in which everyone can pitch in and anyone can get a copy of and customize the code. Mozilla operates in a completely different world that its competitors.”

Isn’t chrome (based on chromium ) not open source “product”?

]]> By: Foo Bard http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/07/26/google-and-mozilla-%e2%80%93-a-new-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-198164 Foo Bard Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:04:35 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=18386#comment-198164 "Although there is little fear at either company that Google will stop supporting Mozilla, everyone also has to admit that Google will continue to feel business and financial pressure to use and promote Chrome." Google doesn't "support Mozilla." Google pays Mozilla for search traffic. So does Yahoo and Ebay and Amazon. If Google decided to end that relationship that sends billions of searches its way, Mozilla could easily replace it with any of the other top search services for the same or even more money. (I'll bet Microsoft would pay a pretty penny to add billions of Bing searches to its tally each month.) But that's not in the interest of either party. Why would Google want to drop billions of searches that it gets for pocket change? Why would Mozilla want to move to a less capable default search? It's a relationship with nothing but upside for both parties. “Although there is little fear at either company that Google will stop supporting Mozilla, everyone also has to admit that Google will continue to feel business and financial pressure to use and promote Chrome.”

Google doesn’t “support Mozilla.” Google pays Mozilla for search traffic. So does Yahoo and Ebay and Amazon.

If Google decided to end that relationship that sends billions of searches its way, Mozilla could easily replace it with any of the other top search services for the same or even more money. (I’ll bet Microsoft would pay a pretty penny to add billions of Bing searches to its tally each month.)

But that’s not in the interest of either party. Why would Google want to drop billions of searches that it gets for pocket change? Why would Mozilla want to move to a less capable default search? It’s a relationship with nothing but upside for both parties.

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