From: Michael Hollins <mick@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T22:35:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 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.
> 

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