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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:52:10PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote: |
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> http://www.scroogle.org/gscrape.html#ffox |
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> Just wondering if anyone had heard of this. Although, if true, it |
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> certainly doesn't surprise me with todays corporate ethics as they are. |
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> Just a bad mark on Mozilla. |
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I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this. Google pays Mozilla to |
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make Google the default search engine for Firefox. Mozilla could have |
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made it Yahoo or someone else, but Google paid them and that's bad? This |
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seems the same to me as Ford offering a television show free cars so |
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that whenever you see a car in the show, it's a Ford. This is as old as |
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advertising itself. |
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Mind you, all the link has is rumor and innuendo to go on. No solid |
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proof. A supposed insider blogger makes an accusation, they ask for |
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corroborating documents which haven't yet been filed, and the principals |
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have no comment for them. They've interpeted the silence of those |
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involved to mean their "guilt". Despite the fact that they aren't |
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_required_ to disclose any information about the matter, either way, |
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except perhaps in quarterly filings. While they may indeed be "guilty", |
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this is scant evidence to even make such an accusation, much less grant |
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it any credence. |
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Paul |
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