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Firefox Kid’s New Start Up, Parakey

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Blake Ross, one of the more high profile members of the Firefox team1, has been quietly working on a new start up for a while. He has been successful in keep the wraps on his new startup, Parakey, but now it seems is close to revealing plans for his next big idea.

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mbaehrlxer ·
Quoting: Firefox began life as an open-source, not-for-profit experiment and recently has begun morphing into a moneymaking enterprise under the Mountain View, Calif.–based Mozilla Corp. Formed in 2005, Mozilla makes money through sources such as Google ads included on the Firefox search results page. Parakey, on the other hand, is launching with profit in mind.


what is this trying to say? firefox started out as netscape with profit in mind. it failed to make profit. on the other hand there are also free software companies making profit. in that light the above statement is rather meaningless.

greetings, eMBee.

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