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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by JoshTriplett on Monday November 18, 2024 @06:21PM (#42178295)
Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense, especially if that foundation was then immediately funded by a variety of companies rather than just one big advertising company.

The obvious test for whether the browser is actually independent: what is the response to "let's add an ad-blocker by default".

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by behnamoh on Monday November 18, 2024 @06:26PM (#42178350)
> Having it owned by a non-profit foundation would make a huge amount of sense,...

OpenAI joined the chat...

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Wytwwww on Monday November 18, 2024 @06:52PM (#42178577)
There would be few incentives to try and pull off something like that if nobody had any faith in the product every becoming extremely profitable though.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by PittleyDunkin on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:28PM (#42180106)
Isn't openapi pro-profit? Or at least I thought it was.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by whiplash451 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:30AM (#42181155)
This is wishful thinking. Non-profits that don’t turn into for-profit turn into a shitshow of incompetence instead.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by niutech on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:19AM (#42182634)
Not necessarily, see The Linux Foundation Europe competently maintains Servo.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by whiplash451 on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:15PM (#42185803)
My comment could rub tech people in the wrong way (for a good reason).

I meant incompetence at the company governance level, not technical.

There's massive technical competence in non-profits.

This brilliance is just wasted by leaders who sacrifice business acumen over the mission.

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Vilian on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:12PM (#42190523)
You all need to learn about employer owned companies, in Brasil it's called cooperativas not sure in english, and that would fix that
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