The entire framing of this post is wrong anyway (unsurprising, since it's just content marketing slop). This isn't something that the DOJ just decides on. They're the plaintiffs, not the judge or jury. Instead it's the remedy the DOJ asked for from the courts.
As long as it's not "use it to fix the system in our favour", it doesn't matter.
And if they can't figure that out (hello Mozilla?) then the worst that has happened is we have a more even distribution of user agents on the web, and people stop coding for a single engine whilst ignoring breakages for the smaller players.
I mean, Microsoft would surely love to be the browser leader again. The web has always been an amazing device and OS neutral platform play, which is why they entered the space in the first place. Do I expect this to happen? No I do not, but there is clearly a huge value to owning the most popular web browser. Safari is a distant second and is probably 98% iPhone usage.
Extensively discussed over the last week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42201261
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42190456
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206590
The entire framing of this post is wrong anyway (unsurprising, since it's just content marketing slop). This isn't something that the DOJ just decides on. They're the plaintiffs, not the judge or jury. Instead it's the remedy the DOJ asked for from the courts.
Someone buys Chrome. What will be the business model?
As long as it's not "use it to fix the system in our favour", it doesn't matter.
And if they can't figure that out (hello Mozilla?) then the worst that has happened is we have a more even distribution of user agents on the web, and people stop coding for a single engine whilst ignoring breakages for the smaller players.
What's Mozilla corp's?
Slowly decline into bankruptcy.
I mean, Microsoft would surely love to be the browser leader again. The web has always been an amazing device and OS neutral platform play, which is why they entered the space in the first place. Do I expect this to happen? No I do not, but there is clearly a huge value to owning the most popular web browser. Safari is a distant second and is probably 98% iPhone usage.
Will google be able to appeal ?
If so this celebration is a bit premature. In 2 months a different party takes over and I can see echos of 2001 and Microsoft here.
It depends on who will buy it.
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