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onedognight on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Creating the future of mobile with Firefox OS – re...

> Firefox OS brings real freedom. Android is completely dependent on Google.

Maybe, but Mozilla is completely dependent on on Google as well.

graue on Oct 10, 2012 [–]

Not true. Since last year, the reason Google is paying them so much money for search engine placement is because there was competitive bidding from Bing.

https://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almo...

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