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Does this mean that their deal with Mozilla was ruled to be an antitrust violation?
I’ve seen at least one journalist say that they think so.
Then that’s very concerning, because IIRC that is actually Mozilla’s largest funding source and losing that could easily threaten Firefox.
It’ll be interesting, because Google have spent a lot of money to maintain dominance and no doubt Bing will try and fill the vacuum. Now is a good time for search engine investment. I suspect that Google will try and make some concessions to appease the law. Expect to hear rumours of Chromium and even Android becoming non profits.
Rip 'em apart! Make them into 6 different companies with single letter names and force two sets of two to share their letter to fuck with their marketing!
…I’ll be in my bunk
It’s amazing to watch the old, rusted machine of antitrust slowly grinding back to life, bit by bit.
How high can they appeal? This is just a district court. I bet it’ll take another decade until a decision is reached.
Anti Commercial-AI license