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Google invests $22 million in KaiOS

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xynixme:

--- Quote ---Maybe on commercial software, when the customer is already paying for the license of use, and in addition they are making some extra money on this kind of deals it would upset me more.
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Lords knows what data of customers will be sold to Google, since customers cannot control nor manage the deal. Nor conditions, like being forced to switch to another solution due to a lack of upgrades or self-destruction of the initial "free" product. Without the usual legal protection. If niche markets would be protected, then we'ld have an actually Ported DF by Adobe and a recent Microsoft Office for OS/2. So thank Goodness niche markets aren't protected. YouTube free and fast, alternatives paid for and slower.

If there would be such a product as FF for OS/2, funded by the funding providers of Mozilla, then the deal will be better. I'm afraid the size of the market does play a role, so you'ld need a larger entity to join. Mozilla, or e.g. united independent OSes with a combined significant market share. Like a Russian OS, to avoid America's OSes.

It won't be as easy as just having to find such a sponsor, and it may be as hard as finding a fully free popular browser. I.e. no DuckDuckGo funding, and so on. It's a hardly protected niche market. A niche market without meaningful competition to be protected. Microsoft isn't allowed to add all apps to its OS, but apps have been added to eCS and ArcaOS. Sometimes one may even be forced to use their products, like an installer. No competition, no need for all types of legal protection.

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