alecm on Nostr: Speaking as a former Sun Microsystems employee, I look forward to Chrome being ...
Speaking as a former Sun Microsystems employee, I look forward to Chrome being purchased by (e.g.) Oracle & taken closed-source, thereby killing an entire browser ecosystem
All bets are off when a huge open source platform like Solaris or Chrome is sold off, and we can see from the diverse installed Solaris ecosystem today how successful the various Solaris “forks” were at individual survival.
Chrome will die and take all its progeny, except maybe Edge, with it.
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly | Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
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#chrome #google #openSource
All bets are off when a huge open source platform like Solaris or Chrome is sold off, and we can see from the diverse installed Solaris ecosystem today how successful the various Solaris “forks” were at individual survival.
Chrome will die and take all its progeny, except maybe Edge, with it.
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly | Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
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#chrome #google #openSource