No, they pay of other software developers and companies to include their toolbar with their software. Just see this or search for "google toolbar affiliate".
Well, Google does it with their toolbar for IE, Google Desktop Search and Chrome. I think most slashdotters think Google as somewhat reputable company.
Uh, no. They only need to provide you access to the software source code. They don't need to provide you source code to the wrapper, or whatever installes the binary version for you.
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No, they pay of other software developers and companies to include their toolbar with their software. Just see this or search for "google toolbar affiliate".
Well, Google does it with their toolbar for IE, Google Desktop Search and Chrome. I think most slashdotters think Google as somewhat reputable company.
Uh, no. They only need to provide you access to the software source code. They don't need to provide you source code to the wrapper, or whatever installes the binary version for you.
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