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Well, it must be different. The two companies compete directly on a number of products and Mozilla's decisions on whether to adopt things like NaCl, for instance, can't be too pleasing to Google.

Yet, I think you'd be right to question the independence of a politician who got 90% of their funding from Google. Maybe it is different because people interested in entering politics have less integrity and produce nothing of value so they are more in thrall to their biggest customer. ;-)

Maybe it is more like the academic projects I've worked on. 100% of the money is from the US Government but none of us are patriotic in the least. We just care about doing the research.

Or how about the US government, which gets most of its funding from US tax payers and China and never seems to do anything that pleases either group.

Or children that get all of their basic needs met by their parents and still grow up to rebel and hate them.

I think politicians are just a special case in being particularly worse than the average human being in terms of ethics, morality and intelligence. :-)




Google is an advertising company that owns and develops a spectacular search engine and a few other great products as loss leaders.

Mozilla is a non-profit foundation that sells its search box to fund a corporation that develops a free web browser.

They don't compete.




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