From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T22:30:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On 7/23/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Michael Hollins wrote:
> > Alex Young wrote:
> >> Then you've got software that's so important that the body behind it
> >> can survive on donations (Mozilla and Apache, to the best of my
> >> knowledge, work this way).
> >
> > I don't know about Apache, but I think you'll find that most of
> > Mozilla's income comes from referral fees from Google. Apparently it's
> > on the order of many tens of millions each year.
> >
> > cheers,
> > mick
> OK ... where does *Google's* money come from? The searches are free, and
> most of their other "products" are as well.

Most of google's profits are from advertising, AFAIK.


Aur