Comment by calibas
5 days ago
> It's mind-boggling that for a company so often seemingly playing catch-up with Google, Mozilla actually leapfrogged Google in the browser development space for a time, and then...decided it wasn't worth pursuing any further.
Google has been Mozilla's main source of revenue since around 2006. For Mozilla to exist, all they have to do is keep Google happy.
It's kind of a nice deal for Mozilla, despite being a huge conflict of interest.
And it's an even better deal for Google. "But look, Chrome is not a monopoly."
If I was Google, I'd do something to set Mozilla back on that track. But oh well, Google these days is even more dysfunctional. They're about to lose search.
Remember that time Microsoft bankrolled a floundering Apple to able to "But look, Windows is not a monopoly"
https://thisdayintechhistory.com/08/06/apple-and-microsoft-c...
And MSFT are still second biggest company in the world by market cap. If Apple hadn’t regrown maybe MS would have been broken up.