Nov 24, 2008
Mozilla's dirty "secret" - and why Firefox will kill Google
A very interesting article has Joe Wilcox at Microsoft Watch "blog published:" Why Firefox Chrome will not survive. "
He goes hard to the "hidden" Financing of the Mozilla Foundation into the court and refers to a message that would come 88 percent of Mozilla's revenue from Google. Firefox is not, therefore, that independent and disinterested open-source project for which it is commonly held, but instead, a puppet controlled by Google.
After Google with Chrome is now sending its own browser into the race, Wilcox will assume that Google also gradually scale down its commitment to Mozilla, and so they "would take the air we breathe."
The Mozilla lives mainly from the Suchschlitz has long been known and that this is paid for by Google, it is the same.
The contract runs until 2011, and incidentally, by then should have mozilla about 100 million of money on the high Kanze.
If Google then the Suchschlitz not want to continue to market, then we will find someone else, or Mozilla puts money into a search engine and secures himself a wneig of the pie ..
So I see this not as black
May well be that Mozilla is a good alternative - after all, Firefox is a well-known and valuable brand with a respectable circulation.
But that an entity receives 88 percent of its revenue from a supporter, is highly risky. Such a ratio would be suicidal in the free economy. Certainly remains an exciting topic.