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Destroy Internet Explorer campaign gets tooled up
piratePenguin:
--- Quote ---Its open source software for Gods sake! You shouldn't be making money off it!
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Well, they're taking the money off Google. And Google give it because they have more users using the Google toolbar, and more people use Firefox (Google employ people to improve Firefox - they mostly do usability work).
Aloone_Jonez:
Yes and Google make money from proprietary software too, in fact most companies do if if they do suport open sourse software.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Yes and Google make money from proprietary software too, in fact most companies do if if they do suport open sourse software.
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I wouldn't be so sure MOST companies do..... But alot of them do.
Google make most of their money from ads, very close to all of it I would guess.. I think they get some for the advanced (or somethin') version of google earth.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I wouldn't be so sure MOST companies do.....
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Maybe someone could list the ones that don't - I certainly can't think of any.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Maybe someone could list the ones that don't - I certainly can't think of any.
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Have you heard of Mozilla? ;)
Yea, Mozilla are a Fucking Cool group - they make good software - good free software, they employ people to develop it, and they're far from dead.
I know more than most people about Mozilla, and I don't know that they make money from any non-free software (it's quite possible that they do, but I would be very surprised) - so that says something.
Beats Opera - who - won't release the code of their web-browser because, I read in an interview with the CEO, they don't see the benefit in releasing the source. Just who's benefit do you think he's thinking about when he says that?
Stack that against the Fucking Cool Mozilla and you'll find another reason (it's kinda more of an extension though...) I won't use Opera full-time.
BTW:
--- Quote from: Opera CEO @ http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/06/01/03/147256.shtml ---I do not believe that making Opera open source would benefit us all that much. I do not think it has benefitted Netscape much either. I believe that we should work as closely with the community as possible and find ways to enable the community to engage and influence what we do to an even greater extent. I do not think that going open source would make us more efficient.
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Yea - this has feck all to do with the original discussion, but neither does where Google get's their money from (which is mostly from advertisements...). I just read your post - thought "Mozilla" and then thought "shit Mozilla is cool!", and then I started typing.
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