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Geek Culture / Firefox to become for-profit product

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GothOtaku
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 07:39
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/VdvLClC2OsZtlZ/Firefox-Browser-Maker-Opts-for-For-Profit-Status.xhtml

It seems that the Mozilla Foundation is creating a for-profit branch. This could mean that they might eventually start charging for Firefox and Thunderbird and/or they might become closed-source in the worst-case scenario.
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Raven
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 07:41
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Saw it earlier and commented on it elsewhere.
to quote myself...

"Commercial Open Source projects always carry a good sense of ironey about them."

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Merranvo
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 07:48
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Well it is actually a buisness tactic.

Realease the full product, get lots of loving customeres, then start charging for the updates.

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 07:53
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screw updates, im perfectly happy with the FireFox I have right now.

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Merranvo
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 08:33
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Did I mention the fact that they hire hackers to make virus'... oops... now I did jk.

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Ian T
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 10:41 Edited at: 4th Aug 2005 10:41
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I was under the impression that Firefox is not going commercial, they're simply switching their open source business model to be more profitable for the programmers. There's nothing paradoxical about it really

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Jeku
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 22:12
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Exactly. They are doing this as a tax break--- nothing more.


My "everyone else has one so why can't I?" blog: http://www.jeku.com/blog/
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