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Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Mozilla and Yahoo have started a legal spat about the deal that existed between the two companies regarding the use of the Yahoo search engine in the Firefox browser. On December 1, Yahoo fired the first shot filing a complaint that alleges Mozilla breached a contract that existed between the two companies by terminating the arrangement early. In a counter complaint, Mozilla says that it was not only justified in terminating the contract early, but that Yahoo Holdings and Oath still have a bill that needs to be settled.
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The contract contained a nearly insane provision that if Yahoo was sold (which Marissa Mayer did not think would happen), that Mozilla had the right to no longer use the Yahoo search engine AND Yahoo had to continue paying Mozilla $375 million per year through 2019! So Yahoo is suing in hopes that they can at least no longer have to pay Mozilla since they aren't even using Yahoo anymore. Yet another testament to the brilliant business acumen of Marissa Mayer.
So essentially Mozilla is double-dipping here, and getting paid by both Yahoo and Google to use Google's search engine.
Better known as 318230.
Now you went and did it. You posted a story with the term "Mozilla" in it. Every saved Google alert in the Mozilla social media team offices is going off. Now we're going to be swarmed by Mozilla's social media team trying to make it seem like there are people who still take them seriously. Considering that Mozilla's market share is still falling after Firefox 57 (and 67% of Mozilla users refuse to upgrade from earlier verisons), you can't take them too seriously. If they'd invest the money into improving the product in the way the users want instead of hiring people to try and convince users they really want the current shitty product, they'd be doing better. But, that's not how the mindset works in Mozilla. "We're right and all we have to to is show people how right we are," is how they think.