From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2baS-0006CY-68 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:24:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79LLWRK008676; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:21:32 GMT Received: from serv.stabilityhost.com (serv.stabilityhost.com [207.44.160.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79LFFpq027736 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:15:16 GMT Received: (qmail 21951 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2005 16:15:47 -0500 Received: from pool-71-99-168-40.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net (HELO hobbes.mars.lan) (71.99.168.40) by serv.stabilityhost.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2005 16:15:47 -0500 Received: by hobbes.mars.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9A981256AB; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:05:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:05:34 -0400 From: Paul M Foster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola Message-ID: <20050809210534.GZ792@quillandmouse.com> References: <20050809195210.GA15338@may.frognet.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050809195210.GA15338@may.frognet.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Archives-Salt: 696a2c6b-6a6e-4a62-bcd5-eee93751b64c X-Archives-Hash: eeec862bff5ea4ab4cdc45847781d8fa On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox > > Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it > certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. > Just a bad mark on Mozilla. > I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this. Google pays Mozilla to make Google the default search engine for Firefox. Mozilla could have made it Yahoo or someone else, but Google paid them and that's bad? This seems the same to me as Ford offering a television show free cars so that whenever you see a car in the show, it's a Ford. This is as old as advertising itself. Mind you, all the link has is rumor and innuendo to go on. No solid proof. A supposed insider blogger makes an accusation, they ask for corroborating documents which haven't yet been filed, and the principals have no comment for them. They've interpeted the silence of those involved to mean their "guilt". Despite the fact that they aren't _required_ to disclose any information about the matter, either way, except perhaps in quarterly filings. While they may indeed be "guilty", this is scant evidence to even make such an accusation, much less grant it any credence. Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list