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Re:Open source as a civic duty by minor_nitwit on Saturday August 17, 2013 @10:26PM (#6231361)
Firefox had to become successful before Google's payments would make a difference. Google didn't front Mozilla the money to develop a browser.
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Re:Open source as a civic duty by wes-exp on Saturday August 17, 2013 @11:20PM (#6231498)
You're right, Mozilla didn't initially depend on Google. It depended on Netscape, which created Mozilla.

I think it's hard to argue that Firefox's ultimate rise to prominence wasn't directly related to funding provided by Google, though.

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