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 1E3A5Y-0006Zk-3i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:15:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7BADOlp010480; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:13:24 GMT Received: from lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7BA9kko014043 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:09:46 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto01.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D91186C2B for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:10:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmcodec04.st1.spray.net ([212.78.202.209]) by localhost (lmfilto01.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00454-06 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:10:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmcodec04.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmcodec04.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B2B14CF904 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:10:15 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=mx+4ezAzYPrw8Jkk7tUDTtrUkBZaE8DWwk+KKyOT5j4cTZeubeLKH1aV5QzN/12hQFhiJWtYC4DWyykUeAUIpZc/X+KPe7nNrk1ZHU7pvjqqR4sq8J4+fPovTKcqyb4DohbMX8AGk2kL+YHcflhRtZ6jS5mwlofY55R0h9Yh6bA=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:10:12 +0100 Message-ID: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <42FA9C7B.1010408@planet.nl> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: 31b9bc5c-e1b5-43b2-b04d-76f8f1cb64d5 X-Archives-Hash: fa972207f82b627270a48b45678e2da4 > -----Original Message----- > From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@planet.nl] > Sent: 11 August 2005 01:32 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the > scenes payola > > [snip] > And if my theory holds water in any way, then the Mozilla Foundation > really would have had no choice but to spin off a for-profit > subsidiary... after all, if the money is rolling in (via perfectly > legitimate and socially acceptable means), it has to go somewhere, and > it can't go to the N-F-P foundation beyond a certain level. An accountant could probably advise better, but I would think that there are appropriate vehicles (e.g. NfP trusts) which would allow financial profits that cannot be expensed in activities supporting the Moz Organisation objectives within the financial year, to be stored and in turn invested thereafter both in for profit and not schemes so that they may grow and prosper. Making an economic profit is not a problem in itself. Compromising Moz.Org./OSS objectives in seeking to derive this profit creates a conflict of interest and therefore it becomes a problem. Of course this may not be the case with the FF/Google syndication, I don't really know. Perhaps what we have here is a strategic failure; i.e. Moz could not come up with valid ideas to promptly expense the profit in support of the development of FF and other products and therefore were forced to spin-off. --------------------- [OT] Holly, you mention that you have a zillion search engines incorporated in your browser . . . 8O Where do you get them from? How can these be added to a browser? [/OT] -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list