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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 941905" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>Yes, just as they have invested in software products that are not necessarily marketed under their own brand names; e.g. Yahoo and Google have both contributed to Mozilla products. In doing so they managed to get their search engine(s) to be the default one in Firefox, so it isn't always for altruistic reasons.</p><p></p><p>While we live in a world where some people think that the internet is Google and/or Facebook, because accessing their sites is the first thing they do when getting online, we probably won't see much in the way of viable alternative OSs, or major software types - productivity etc. Facebook provide the means for people to get onto the internet in certain parts of the world, their devices are probably using Google Android and they don't know of alternatives like F-Droid to get apps from. Education is a wonderful thing, but restricted education narrows people's horizons and expectations. If the internet providers they have to use do not let the users access things outside of a walled garden they won't know of other apps, browsers or providers. There is a very big captive market out there. The more that people use the 'big "bad" capitalist companies' it seems that it is less likely they will know of, or even look for, alternatives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 941905, member: 69368"] Yes, just as they have invested in software products that are not necessarily marketed under their own brand names; e.g. Yahoo and Google have both contributed to Mozilla products. In doing so they managed to get their search engine(s) to be the default one in Firefox, so it isn't always for altruistic reasons. While we live in a world where some people think that the internet is Google and/or Facebook, because accessing their sites is the first thing they do when getting online, we probably won't see much in the way of viable alternative OSs, or major software types - productivity etc. Facebook provide the means for people to get onto the internet in certain parts of the world, their devices are probably using Google Android and they don't know of alternatives like F-Droid to get apps from. Education is a wonderful thing, but restricted education narrows people's horizons and expectations. If the internet providers they have to use do not let the users access things outside of a walled garden they won't know of other apps, browsers or providers. There is a very big captive market out there. The more that people use the 'big "bad" capitalist companies' it seems that it is less likely they will know of, or even look for, alternatives. [/QUOTE]
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