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Google Can Continue Paying for Firefox Search Deal, Judge Rules
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The harm done by disallowing it in this case is greater than the damage by allowing it to continue. Pretty simple.
Dont like it? Help find was to make mozilla independent.
How do you know this? how are you calculating the damage? we are dealing with opportunities that are lost, opportunities with a value that can't even be known/understood since they aren't being explored. I'm not sure you can easily measure this arithmetically, or predict exactly what would be the counter-reaction to the alleged harm of acting upon it.
Sometimes it's actually a good thing long term to let things burn down naturally and build something better with a stronger foundation.
Making exceptions for the powerful and justifying actions for the sake of maintaining the status Quo does not sound like a good strategy to me, personally.
Making an exception for mozilla is hardly making an exception for the powerful.
As for how i know this, its pretty basic ecosystem analysis and understanding around how monocultures cause massive issues. Basically every attempt at solving these types problems identifies it as an issue. From capitalism, socialism, ecological studies, medical studies, to social dynamics.
Killing the only non google controlled broswer implementation will cause massive harm, massive harm that this legal case is literally about.
I am a Firefox user but I see a different reality.
Nearly 40% of Mozilla's budget goes to management and administration costs. It is unclear how much actually goes into improving Firefox vs how much goes into surfing over whatever new trend eg. AI, VPN, VR, ...
If Firefox is killed it is 100% the fault of Mozilla, not Google.
How it spends has nothing to do with pulling from google would cause it to collapse removing the only competition chrome really has. Pretty simple.
On the other hand, there will never be another way if Mozilla doesn't need the other way.
Cant prove that and attempting via a legal ruling isnt a sound idea repurcussions are too immediate