Having Google as the default search engine definitely does make sense, since this is what people currently demand (whether or not Moz gets paid for it).

Now, back to my point. I am being critical of the multitude of Tech Corporations (and not of Mozilla) for not investing more heavily into the foundation. Clearly, all of the software Moz provides helps people using and discovering the internet. The corporations should all contribute to the “tip jar” on this one.

You make it sound like some kind of underwriting. It’s not. It’s a revenue relationship with a search company based on user traffic and actions. Any of the other major search companies would happily pay for the default position in Firefox. We go with Google because it’s the best, not because it’s the only option. If it stops being the best, we’ll move to a different one and probably have an equally positive revenue arrangement with that company.

The point is that the revenue generating feature is about search, not about any one search company. I’d get it if you suggested that we should be looking into other incomes unrelated to search, but it’s not about Google, it’s about the feature.

Make sense?

Still, my hat is off to the good Mozilla folks, who brought us so many improvements in Open Source, and awesome free software.