On 5/22/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Seamonkey ironically is another free product of the Mozilla Foundation (who makes Firefox).
I know.
I suppose we could just do a Mozilla link, rather than a Firefox one, but that's neither here nor there yet. The question is, "Is something like this with another non-profit a good idea?"
Firefox has that relationship with Mozilla Corp.
In the short term. What you do when a second rate browser offers you twice the cash?
If the theoretical deal with the Moz Foundation is non-exclusive, review it. Is the new offer another non-profit non-commercial project that is not incompatible with Wikipedia goals? Keep in mind that there aren't exactly many big free open-source non-commercial non-profits that are
- seriously high profile (Wikipedia, Firefox, and...?)
- Flush with cash (Firefox, and...?).
This scenario is highly, highly unlikely. Firefox/Moz Foundation to my knowledge is the only such possible partner.
IBM write an open source browser (or purchase opera) and offer you a significant chunk of cash to link to it. What do you do?