• PixelPlumber@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think the poster is making a good point though- In this split, google the advertising company can freely contribute to the open source chromium. You need some model that leads the chromium maintainer to reject changes like this.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure there’s some mechanism in antitrust to prevent the broken up companies from doing things like that. Otherwise, a “primary” company would just contract out the old other pieces and they’re basically whole again.

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        1 year ago

        That’s true, I just wonder if open source changes anything, legally. Unless one term of the breakup is “will not contribute to chromium”