The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.'s Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

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

  • ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    24 days ago

    I heard the same for Android and I was pretty supportive of the sentiment until I listened to the Android Faithful podcast episode discussing it…

    If Google doesn’t develop Android, nobody will. Whoever buys Android, we don’t know if they will maintain the AOSP. Android has been an equal parts rollercoaster of good and bad ideas thanks to Google, but it has had someone do that…

    Maybe LineageOS could take over, but that’s just insane wishful thinking.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      24 days ago

      Nokia, Siemens, Oracle, Linux Foundation, Tesla, IBM, OpenAI…there a hundreds of companies wealthy enough in that space that would not pose a consumer protection issue.