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Google's Shadow Over Firefox
eldavojohn writes "The Mozilla Foundation's chief executive now earns roughly half a million in pay and benefits. With $70 million in assets, the Foundation gave out less than $300,000 in grants to open source projects in 2006. And in 2006 85% of their $66 million in revenue came from Google. When these figures first came to light, people worried whether Firefox was becoming a pawn in Google's cold war with Microsoft. The Foundation addressed these fears and largely laid them to rest; but now the worry is that, even though it's clear that the community's code is what makes Firefox successful, Mozilla may be becoming dangerously reliant on Google's cash."
Who knows, when the contract with Google expires in 2008, maybe even MS will try to make a deal with The Firefox Foundation.
/me is getting senile
Only thing preventing this deal would be if, say, Microsoft developed its own BROWSER CALLED INTERNET EXPLORER!
My wife for hire!
You're right. I first saw the "my wife for hire" interpretation on slashdot, and it made me laugh so much I can't help but replace it whenever I hear or think of it.
Kind of like how I can't hear Smells Like Teen Spirit without thinking "Now I'm mumblin', and I'm screamin', and I don't know what I'm singin'".
lol wut is youtube?