Comment by BrenBarn
1 year ago
It's just nuts that the "penalty" for violating antitrust law is that the offender gets to sell part of themselves and receive compensation. Engaging in unfair competition or obtaining too large a market share should be punished with remedies that make the perpetrator worse off than it was before it began the offending behavior.
Google (probably) doesn't consider selling Chrome to be good for them or they would have done it on their own.
They probably consider it better than, say, being forced to give it away and also pay $100 billion.