[top-posting for Karen] Our policy has been: no attachments. But links are fine. "force users to have default access to Google's search engine only." is too strong a phrase. More like "makes google the default search engine. A user can easily override that default for any individual search or for all future searches. But defaults are powerful. Non-profits can do business: they can go beyond donations. They must not make much net profit over the longer term. For example, I spend a lot of money buying parking from hospital foundations.
From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> To: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com>, GTALUG Talk <talk@gtalug.org> Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:59:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Google is ruled a monopoly so Firefox is at serious risk
Well..its not quite this simple. Starting with a question? can attachments be sent to the list? My media hat on, its because I have a copy of this ruling, but you can find it as well. i suggest using duckduckgo instead of Google though. The correct situation is that Google is violating antitrust laws by paying companies , and apparently that includes Mozilla for them to force users to have default access to Google's search engine only. What I find really concerning about what you share though may be a misconception on my part. I have always believed that Mozilla was a nonprofit organization. Meaning that Google would be donating funding to Mozilla..then taking that same amount off their taxes to create an antitrust situation..which speaking personally feels both illegal and immoral on several levels for me. Anyway, the ruling, which will be challenged in court for many many years, will require google to stop buying competitors out of the search engine market, allowing end users to choose what search tool they want instead. As I said,i have a copy of the decision, there is allot of press on the case. Kare
On Tue, 13 Aug 2024, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Apparently 90% of Mozilla's funding comes from Google. Google pays that money to be the default search engine for Firefox. Google may have to stop. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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