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DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports (neuters.de)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] ccdfa@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

OK but 98% of chrome is open source then? Who would buy it?

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Chrome isn't open source?