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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by sayhello on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:54PM (#2805774)
I'm curious, what problems do they have?
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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by rkwz on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:15PM (#2805824)
Funding.
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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by sayhello on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:42AM (#2807841)
That's assuming they want to make money.

It seems to me their mandate is to make everyone's lives better. This looks like a project to define web standards for the future. It also looks like they've got enough to last them for a bit.

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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by rpearl on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:21PM (#2805838)
[Citation needed]
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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by rkwz on Monday July 25, 2011 @11:32PM (#2805870)
>>I'd much rather have Mozilla working on an "OS for the web" than Google, despite whatever problems Mozilla may have.

In this context, one of the problems that Mozilla has compared to Google is money.

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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by dreamdu5t on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:06AM (#2805941)
They've got 100 million. That's enough to do amazing things.

Honestly, for all the money Google has, Google+ isn't very impressive.

Interestingly, about half of that 100 million comes from Google to secure their spot as the homepage and default search.

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Re:Boot to Gecko: building a complete, standalone operating ... by pseudonimble on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:00AM (#2806687)
$100 million is nothing. People regularly win that much on the lottery. It's enough to do amazing things, but not enough to competitively do amazing things.
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