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Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-water-is-wet dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla CEO John Lilly has admitted the Firefox maker's relationship with Google has become 'more complicated' since the company launched its own browser. Mozilla is dependent on Google for the vast majority of its revenue and has previously worked closely with the search king's engineers on the development of Firefox. But that relationship appears to have cooled since Google released Chrome in the summer. 'We have a fine and reasonable relationship, but I'd be lying if I said that things weren't more complicated than they used to be.'"

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  1. Google is NOT Microsoft by EmotionToilet · · Score: 1, Troll
    Google has grown rapidly over the last 10 years, and they are a big company, but they are not Microsoft. The culture at Google is not rotten like it is at Microsoft. Google does produce low quality software like they do at Microsoft. Google is still innovative in many ways that MS is not. Google is making steady progress in a way that MS has not. And overall, Google is not run by a bunch of idiots like MS is.

    Also the saying "Stick with Linux and stay away from Google" has no meaning because Google's products are not dependent on any desktop OS; they are internet based. "Stick with Linux and avoid Microsoft" would make more sense, but it would also be way off topic.

    I hate to see people compare Apple or Google to Microsoft because it is a false comparison. Just because a company has grown very large very quickly doesn't mean that it is a Microsoft. That's just an ignorant thing to say.