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Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search

Posted by Soulskill on from the much-ado-about-nothing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears Google will not cut their default search arrangement with Mozilla. From the official blog post: 'We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.'"

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  1. how are the terms able to stay secret? by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a non-profit organization, don't these things eventually have to show up in Mozilla's annual filings? Or are they somehow aggregated together in an opaque way by the subsidiary relationship of the Mozilla Foundation vs. the Mozilla Corporation?

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    1. Re:how are the terms able to stay secret? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not to be dense, but as someone who has used Firefox and even Thunderbird Sunbird/Lightning at times, what else do they do? The About us link I just looked at doesn't spoon feed it to me, so I don't even know what Drumbeat is after reading a hundred words...

      A real question, even if I am an AC.

  2. Re:Hypocrites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll explain. FOSS advocates aren't necessarily privacy freaks, though sometimes they are. If they're very privacy aware, almost undoubtedly they hate Google. I know a few people who are very privacy aware (or "privacy freaks" as you put it) - they all hate Google.
    I also know a number of people (and myself too) who are big advocates and contributors to open-source yet are not so paranoid about privacy. Their opinions on Google vary from positive to negative. I like some of their stuff - they're great with open-source - however I dislike how much power they're getting.

  3. Re:Not a huge surprise... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IE 10 is the most conforment browser to date.

    IE 10? Please. That thing isn't even beta yet. Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to turn a "completely compliant" pre-release browser into "that which must not be named" upon release.

    I like the direction they're going so far, but until it's released, there's no telling what it will REALLY be like.