That’s exactly what I was thinking. It also makes Chrome essentially worthless to anyone except Google.
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btaf45@lemmy.world 2 days agoWhat’s to stop them just making another browser?
Nothing. Chromium is open source. So they could just fork it and declare a new “official” google browser and it would be a lot like Chrome.
I’m not sure why the govt thinks forcing google to give up a particular fork/branch of an open source browser is all that meaningful. It might make more sense if Chrome was a closed source one of a kind browser.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 days ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Maybe as a whole package, but node.js servers are ubiquitous and have a ton of stakeholders that have nothing to do with web browsers.
btaf45@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What does Chrome have to do with a node.js server?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Same JS engine, same maintainers, same iron-grip control by Google.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’ve worked in the aftermath of DoJ agreements like this one. The DoJ is not stupid (or at least didn’t used to be) and will have stipulations about removing Google employees from governance/write permissions to the project, with follow up check-ins every few months to make sure any shenanigans aren’t occurring.
…none of that matters though now that the DoJ is going to be dissolved.