<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/13 Alexander H Deriziotis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deriziotis@gmail.com">deriziotis@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> i have to disagree w promoting chromium here.<br> <br> Firefox is developed by an independent foundation w no business agenda<br> behind it. It is a grassroots project which has become the figurehead<br> of successful open source projects.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Last time I checked Mozilla made $78 million dollars in revenue. Obviously some kind of business agenda exist.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> It also has an inclusive and collaborative development model which<br> encourages volunteering.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And Chromium doesn't? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> Chrome on the other hand has none of these things (as far as ive seen,<br> not that ive looked very deeply).<br> <br> The point is that firefox embodies the spirit of open source and will<br> always be neutral while chrome will always inherently be driven by<br> google and a profit- driven agenda.<br> <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As stated above, Firefox also has a profit-driven agenda. It's not a coincidence that the default start pages contains a google search bar.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div> <div>Erik</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Alex<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> ubuntu-desktop mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>