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Google Kinda Gives Chromium Away Because… Antitrust
Google's "giveaway" of its open source Chromium assets is a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn't an intentional monopolist.
“With the launch of the Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers, we are taking another step forward in empowering the open source community,” Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation said in a statement. This is where it starts to get convoluted and agenda ridden, because I’ll guarantee you that Google’s not kicking in some bucks, and likely giving up a considerable amount of control over a project, out of a sense of altruism. In its opinion, instead of breaking up the company, all the court needs to do to level the playing field is to regulate the distribution deals it makes with browsers, mobile device makers, and wireless carriers.
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