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Comment by blockme69

1 year ago

Well hopefully Google will pay the price for their greed soon enough.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...

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internetter  1 year ago

They won't under the trump admin

winwang  1 year ago

As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome.

For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products?

For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward?

And yet another, there's literally Chromium, which other browsers (built by other corps) use, e.g. Edge, Brave, etc.

Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

Disclaimer: I hold these opinions weakly and would love to learn more about why they might be ill-premised.

  • opan  1 year ago

    >Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

    Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.

    • jpc0  1 year ago

      Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?

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