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Comment by criddell

5 days ago

> What do you think will happen if Google is forced to divest Chrome?

The new Chrome company will struggle for a year or two then Apple will try to buy it but lose out after Oracle submits a higher bid.

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wongarsu  5 days ago

Oracle Chrome would remain free at first, but one year down the road all new versions would become free for home use but $50 per seat yearly for commercial use, with a clause that allows Oracle to enter your offices to audit your compliance at any time

lenerdenator  5 days ago

If the choice is no internet, forever, or giving Oracle money, I'm gonna live in 1990 from here on out.

  • hypercube33  5 days ago

    Return to Konqueror Browser from KDE - the grandfather webkit browser.

    In all seriousness, I kind of wish that someone could build a sustained non profit like apache to take over chromium - if Google or Microsoft or others want to custom roll their own flavor fine, but Google being for-profit has been making decisions against the best for everyone browsing the web (such as the new plugin stuff around adblocks) (conflict of interest)

Suppafly  5 days ago

>The new Chrome company will struggle for a year or two then Apple will try to buy it but lose out after Oracle submits a higher bid.

We're in the worst timeline, so I could see that happening.

  • gambiting  5 days ago

    Elon buys it to "preserve free speech everywhere" then turns it into the same swamp twitter is. So you know, could be worse.