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> Google's been paying Mozilla for search traffic for more than 20 years

Well, and Mozill gladly accepted the deal, being passive and without even trying to be self-sustainable. The (only) culprit here isn't Google. Mozilla's mismanagement has played a big role.

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Mozilla had 10 engineers a total team of about 20 and about $1M in the bank and a few dollars in donations coming in when we made the Google search deal. Take that deal away in late 2004 and Mozilla dies by 2026. It seems like you don't actually understand any of this and are just bluffing.

> Take that deal away in late 2004 and Mozilla dies by 2026

Run a team of 10 engineers for 20+ years on $1m? Wow that's a bargain!

(I assume you meant dies by 2006 :D)

If you're implying that Mozilla has not been horribly mismanaged for decades, I think many would disagree with that.

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