Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India

Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by codezero on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:14PM (#7880988)

If they make a model based on altruism work, I am all for it, but I am working on the assumption that it won't work, or at least, I don't know of many systems in which something is for sale, but the rest of the system relies on altruism.

Wikipedia is altruism on a large scale, but they aren't selling the consumer anything.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by soapdog on Thursday June 12, 2014 @12:01AM (#7881752)

nor is mozilla selling anything... mozilla is a global community dedicated to the betterment of the web. We don't have shareholders, we're only accountable to you, the normal web user that we'd like to help and protect ;-)

Cue: Google for "Mozilla is my dinossaur"

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by pbhjpbhj on Thursday June 12, 2014 @06:02AM (#7882586)

There's a pretty big FOSS ecosystem that seems to be sustaining itself reasonably well - yes it relies on things like freemium and paid support and such, but still.

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