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Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history’s footnote?

  • LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Why would that be safe to assume? As far as I can see, the US admin wouldn’t bat an eye if Google had a monopoly on the internet standards.

    Just going off a quick glance here I can see the latest Fox corpos buying Roku. There was the Bytedance merger too.

    I’m not trying to argue with you, but you seems to have high hopes, and I would like to have some hope myself if you can explain your reasons to me?

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Companies have a long history of funding their competitors to avoid looking like monopolies. Microsoft did it for Apple. And while the Trump administration has been allowing more mergers than ever before, two competitors in a single space collapsing into one would be very unprecedented.

      But even in a scenario worse than if Google stops contributing to Mozilla, they’ll have three years worth of stored money to draw upon