June 14, 2004

Mozilla 1.8 With Added Spyware

licensing@mozilla.org recently received the following email: 

Hi,
 
My name is Jered Goodyear and I am a Sr. Media Buyer for a full-service online
marketing company called Mindset Interactive.  Our consumer brand is Addictive
Technologies. We currently partner with 4 different products and deliver these 
to the end-user through ad prompted installs and by bundling our .exe file with
other dowloadable products.  I think that the latter would be a good opportunity
for the both of us, co-bundling our .exe with your free downloads. 

With the amount of downloads you are getting monthly, this could be a large
source of additional money.

Please contact me so that we may discuss the possibilities further.

Thanks.  I hope to hear back from you soon.

- Jered

Of course, I replied immediately, expressing interest and asking for more information. mozilla.org will certainly be vigorously pursuing this offer, and we hope to include Mindset Interactive's spywaresoftware with our next release.

Not.

Posted by gerv at June 14, 2004 11:33 PM
Comments

Yay! No spyware

Posted by: :P at June 15, 2004 1:10 AM

Should lead them on just to waste their time.

If enough people do it, it costs them money.

Posted by: Robert Accettura at June 15, 2004 1:51 AM

Perhaps you should tell them that you are interested if they tri-license their software as open-source MPL/GPL/LGPL, since that is how Mozilla operates. It would be interesting to hear their response, even if you don't intend to follow through.

Posted by: Racer at June 16, 2004 5:12 PM

:D Why don't i just install the spyware directly and collect the money myself? Give me the address of that Jered guy :9~

Posted by: drm at June 17, 2004 8:32 PM