DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports
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The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet's Google to sell off its Chrome internet browser, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plans.

Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    How do you force someone to sell something thats open source?

    Can the government please force me to sell my open source software too? If they could be my sales department, I’d love that. Pretty please.

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I don’t see how a “Chrome” company would make any money. Now if the Chrome Company also owned ChromeOS and Chromebooks that might be interesting. But it could also be bad, because such a company would probably want to take a cut of every Chromebook in order to actually make money.

    • ccdfa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Chromium is open source, Google bases their Chrome off of it, but Chrome is not open source.