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by ipaddr 1341 days ago
Marketshare is important, default search engine revenue is based on usage.
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It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.
It is irrelevant to it being free.
No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.
The direction of development is irrelevant to it being free.
If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.
Being controlled by corporate interests is completely orthogonal to being free. A lot of Free Software is being controlled by corporate interests and there's nothing wrong with it.