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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by jacquesm on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:34PM (#12051230)
Another possible scenario: Mozilla pockets $1B, several months later Yahoo goes bust and then they're free to do whatever they want because Yahoo can't perform any more.
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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by rockdoe on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:35PM (#12051241)
The question is, if there's no healthy competition in the search space, isn't Mozilla (and the web) ultimately still f----ed?
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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by jacquesm on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:38PM (#12051253)
Long term quite probably yes, but if they manage that money wisely and concentrate on their core product rather than on all kinds of funky (and costly) stuff it could last for a long time.
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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by pekk on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:17AM (#12054017)
Yahoo isn't offering healthy competition anyway, really.
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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by geobmx540 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @04:04PM (#12051766)
"pockets $1B", I think that's it's still over several years, I suspect if they go "bust" they won't have that 1B
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Re:Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than... by jacquesm on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:03PM (#12052362)
I had a deal with a big provider in NL to pay a fixed fee every month, when they backed out I forced them to pay the full amount over the duration of the contract in one go.

Not saying that will always work, but it did work for me (it wasn't a billion though (obviously), but a few hundred K).

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