Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, sues him for $3.4M

Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by steven2012 on Monday April 29, 2013 @12:09PM (#5627036)

Google funds basically all of Mozilla's budget, something like $300M/yr. Google does not consider Mozilla a rival. If they wanted to destroy Mozilla, they would just need to not renew their funding agreement.

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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by ww520 on Monday April 29, 2013 @12:12PM (#5627045)

Google got the benefit of the search engine placement in Mozilla for the money. Bing would love to be in Google's place in relationship to Mozilla.

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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by marshray on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:22PM (#5627489)

Do you have any idea how much money Mozilla has in the bank?

It's very hard to "destroy" a not-for-profit that has a substantial endowment.

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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by steven2012 on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:46PM (#5629820)

One of my close friends works for Mozilla. I was told by him that they need to spend most, if not all of their money every year. So I don't think they have a substantial amount of money in the bank.

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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by fakeer on Monday April 29, 2013 @02:03PM (#5627700)

Google hugely benefits from Mozilla search deal. I am sure companies like Amazon, Yahoo and Bing shall jump to the opportunity.

Firefox, IMHO, is one real challenge to Chrome with IE to be outed the day most of the Internet is educated to better software and starts to learn making choices in a broad manner. Safari not counted of course. So, as I said that leaves Firefox and Chrome in the arena. And a Firefox wounded with a financial blow shall be meat for Chrome. Things that's keeping Firefox in race and that is innovation, freedom, privacy advocacy. Without much money in the bank or boggled with court cases it's going to be real hard.

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