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by duk3luk3 5279 days ago
You should check who pays 80% of Mozilla's budget based on a secret contract Mozilla is not allowed to talk about.

Not the users.

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And? Their code is still open source, their development resources, calls and notes are available in a wiki. They, in contrast to both Google (I love Chrome, don't get me wrong) and Microsoft have a vested standards-first focus and even their "app store" that is in development is entirely standardized and HTML5/w3c based versus the Chrome Web Store.

Who cares where their money comes from? There is no doubt in my mind, whatsoever, that the only influence Google has bought is the default value for "search provider" for the search box, and the branded homepage.