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How do you breakup a private company developing an OSS software? The best I can think of is break up the trademark such as Chrome or Chromebook and some few pro
by ezoe 6y ago
How do you breakup a private company developing an OSS software? The best I can think of is break up the trademark such as Chrome or Chromebook and some few proprietary parts of Chrome. Chromium, the OSS part of the browser is available as OSS and Google can start developing even after the breakup. Or US government force private company to not to develop a certain software like a web browser?
- paulryanrogers 6y agoSame way you stop predatory pricing? Prohibit large players from offering something that undermines healthy competition. If they try to fund another under a different name then journalists and whistleblowers will expose them.
- bryan_w 6y agoIf they try to make it so that Google employees can't commit to the chromium repo, they're going to run into 1st amendment issues real quick.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoGoogle can afford to compensate employees for any restrictions that may come with the job.
- alacombe 6y agoAt worst, Google relocates the dev team outside of US jurisdiction, in an entity itself owned by another independent foreign entity owned by Google, but funded exclusively in non-USD currencies, preventing any retaliatory actions from the US government.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoClever. But every browser with significant market share will be investigated because who funds them is news worthy