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Mozilla Raking in Millions?

truthsearch writes "Internetnews.com wonders about the money Firefox is making in revenue thanks to Google. From the article: 'Mozilla gets paid a publicly undisclosed amount for each Google search query made from Firefox by a user.' This revenue is used to pay the recently formed Mozilla Corporation's 40 full-time equivalent employees and fund project and infrastructure development."

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  1. Great, they can afford to fix RAM issues now!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    abc def

  2. Anti OSS FUD from Zonk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When he isn't placing pro Micorsoft stories Zonk is running down the Microsoft oppostition.

    It really is amazing how often the pro Microsoft articles are placed by Zonk.

  3. Re:So what? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Skype doesn't work as well with AMD CPUs as it does with Intel CPUs and it was deliberately engineered to not work as well with AMD CPUs.

    I think you meant to say 'it was not deliberately engineered to work as well with AMD cpus.'

    Software optimization is often carried out to tune a piece of software to the dominant processor.

    And yes, I'm sure this was probably the topic of a huge ill-informed flamefest here on slashdot sometime in the past that I was lucky to miss.

  4. Re:TFA says "millions" by visualight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When the fuck are we going to get a decent file dialog on Linux? Even the xml one which wasn't great doesn't seem to work in 1.5 anymore, no matter how many times I copy that shit back into place!

    The people who develop firefox think that gtk is attractive and that gnome has usable file dialogues. There's not much you can do about it really, except to use Windows if you must have firefox. Everyone in my office uses KDE (even the two that have fedora) at work; we all switched to Konqueror after 1.5 came out.
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    Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
  5. Re:TFA says "millions" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's an unhelpful comment overall, but for the love of god, if you're going to tell him to switch from Linux, why tell him to go to Windows??

  6. feh, meh, geh... by soren · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    :wq