Comment by efitz
6 days ago
Almost certainly that would be part of a consent decree, which would prohibit Google from creating or controlling a browser for some period of time, and would include court supervision.
6 days ago
Almost certainly that would be part of a consent decree, which would prohibit Google from creating or controlling a browser for some period of time, and would include court supervision.
I find it hard to believe that any court could legally stop Google from developing a new browser if they were forced to sell Chrome.
Any court today? Maybe. Similar arrangements have been pretty common, though.
then you don't understand how any of this works
Yes because government regulation of tech has been so successful in the past. Just look at how well the anti trust lawsuit against IBM went - that they later just dropped because it wasn’t relevant anymore - or the Microsoft lawsuit in 2000.
No there was never a browser choice mandate in the US
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So Google could also not ship a browser with Android devices? Chromebooks?
Selling devices with a browser installed or available for installation is completely tangential to creating and/or controlling the development of said browser.
Would Google not be allowed to make any changes to the open source Chromium browser before installing it on its own hardware?
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