If Google don't pay for Firefox's continued existence, they'll have to deal with anti-trust lawsuits over their Chrome market share. That's essentially why they keep paying.
They could have, if they focused on their core mission the whole time and invested the excess in an endowment that made them independent of corporate donations.
Hm, the line between Foundation and Corporation is getting blurry from here
If only. Somehow there is no way for users to actually fund development of the browser.
Google can afford not buying that service though. Can Mozilla afford Google not being their customer? I genuinely don't know.
Given that the default search engine in Firefox was Yahoo for a year or so when Google decided not to pay... sure, why not?
I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to pay for Bing to be the default in Firefox.
If Google don't pay for Firefox's continued existence, they'll have to deal with anti-trust lawsuits over their Chrome market share. That's essentially why they keep paying.
They could have, if they focused on their core mission the whole time and invested the excess in an endowment that made them independent of corporate donations.