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More money the old fashioned way
Find a need and fill it is the marketing mantra. Coupled with that is the notion of charging the needy for scratching their itch. That's not just capitalism, that's human nature.

Some high profile individuals get a big paycheck just for their raw output, but others get a share of the proceeds. For Mr. Softee, thousands of developers became multimillionaires from the stock options and a handful became billionaires. At google, the owners are billionaires, but they aren't giving away any software AFAIK. They sell their system software along with hardware to quite a few folk. Plus they are getting beaucoup bucks in advertising revenues from selling the right hand side of their pages to people who are eager to pay for the "impressions" they get.

If google thinks they can build traffic with their own browser, more power to them! But it is hardly a victory for the OSS smurfs.
Posted by: amicus_curious   Posted on: 01/25/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Come on Google, give us a hand. We need a Google branded Firefox.  DonnieBoy | 01/24/05
Google is just another Netscape  pa2004 | 01/24/05
Disagree.. Google has their act together  Prognosticator | 01/25/05
And they like money....  DarbyOhara | 01/25/05
If MSN finds its way around, that is...  Anti_Zealot | 01/25/05
Funny in two talkbacks! (NT)  Mack DaNife | 01/25/05
To those of you who criticize him for Advertisement  JJ_z | 01/25/05
Gessshh JJ...  Anti_Zealot | 01/25/05
Hunh?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/25/05
The above post has no relevance to this discussion  Sunny Jalolly | 01/25/05
Good for him. Bad for us...  BitTwiddler | 01/25/05
Did you even read the article?  sokushi jonez | 01/25/05
Could be bad news for FF.  IT Scion | 01/25/05
Could be good news for internet uses  TechType | 01/25/05
Yes, but will it be stuffed with Advertisements?  BitTwiddler | 01/25/05
he's actually staying on with FF  Monkey_MCSE | 01/25/05
here's the link to his blog on mozilla  Monkey_MCSE | 01/25/05
Thanks(nt)  IT Scion | 01/25/05
Google has every reason to play nice here and go for maximum market for FF  DonnieBoy | 01/25/05
I'm confused  tic swayback | 01/25/05
I'm confused  rhammock | 01/25/05
It's called resume building.  Anton Philidor | 01/25/05
Crystal ball not required  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/25/05
Not on working hours.  Anton Philidor | 01/25/05
More money the old fashioned way  amicus_curious | 01/25/05
But it does show....  tic swayback | 01/25/05
What does this mean?  Sunny Jalolly | 01/25/05
gbrowser.com is not what you think...  DarkFate | 01/25/05
Re: gbrowser.com is not what you think...  rhavyn | 01/25/05
wow I can see what they're up to  hipparchus2000 | 01/25/05

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