http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/28/apples-app-store-r...

> This is still one of our early steps towards our goal of improving the state of digital advertising for the Web – delivering greater transparency for advertisers, better, more relevant content experiences and, above all, greater control for Firefox users.

At least one would hope they could be honest in their goal, I don't think anybody care about the state of digital advertising except marketers.

And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I have no idea what they spent so much money on)

Indeed, it's not a binary decision, there are other ways than just sell you user's data.

For starter, Google (and now Yahoo) were giving hundreds of millions every year. What did Mozilla do with that?

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So in your case, it should rather read:

"After 43 years in business, Joe's Pizza will be shutting down after July 10th because of its acquisition by Pizza Hut, which will tore down the place and puts its own pizzeria here. Be happy we got rich!"

People gets emotional with place they go to or things they use, you can think it's irrational, but it's just a fact of life.

  Many thanks to you all for your feedback & support, and here's to a
  new chapter!

  An incredible journey is:
  
      One company buying another and closing its services down. This is a
  purchase of the second company’s staff, rather than their product. An
  acquihire.
  
  If you look through the archives this is what all the incredible
  journeys have in common. A company gets bought, its staff are excited
  (publicly, anyway) about their new home, but sorry that the service
  which brought them to the attention of their new bosses will have to be
  closed. “But thanks for joining us on our incredible journey!”
  
  This is what is galling. A company that can afford to pay millions for
  some new staff but not for what those staff built. The people who used
  the service, and invested their belief and time in uploading photos, or
  forming friendships, or logging data, are left to find new virtual homes
  while their former hosts enjoy a nice (if possibly delayed) payday.
  
  This repeated pattern only encourages more people to create flashy
  services that have no hope of being sustainable businesses in their own
  right, but may survive long enough, with VC funding, to attract the
  attention of a large company eager for new ideas and staff.
  
  It’s one thing for companies to go bust, or to close their service
  after failing to make it work. This is business. It’s capitalism. But
  starting services only to close them a couple of years later when payday
  arrives is a vicious way to treat people.

Or maybe s/he had a better idea than you had? Doesn't look like luck to me.

Edit: To add a bit more to the conversation, does the change from Canonical to Blue Systems[2] changed much to the development of Kubuntu/KDE?

[1] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-asFPvnoidnw/U4cXbGCcv2I/AAAAAAAAM...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Systems

How is that different from a painter looking at a live model or doing a self portrait with a mirror?

How so? With SEPA[1] it's both easy (European wide bank account number) and free (might not be the case if both accounts use different currencies though, but in euros it's free).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

Bear in mind that a research project can be interesting in its own right, not everything has to be about large scale use.

Now if HURD is an interesting research, that's an entirely different subject...

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