Comment by Tepix

Comment by Tepix 10 hours ago

9 replies

Google is likely to have 1000 people or so working on Chrome and Chromium.

That's going to be difficult to maintain. If OpenAI takes over i expect Chrome and Chromium to go closed source.

jillesvangurp 9 hours ago

Chromium would be hard to relicense due to copyright but trivial to fork.

So, chromium won't go away. Those 1000+ people are the main resource here. Effectively they work mostly on chromium and not on chrome. What happens to chromium if that stops?

My guess is MS might step up and hire people.

  • ArinaS 4 hours ago

    > "So, chromium won't go away."

    Sadly, it absolutely can go closed-source as it's licensed under BSD-3 clause, which is not a copyleft license.

tantalor 9 hours ago

I assume a condition of the sale would be a contract to pay Google $XX M/yr for support.

  • owebmaster 8 hours ago

    I assume a condition of the sale would be a contract to pay OpenAI $XX B/yr for the default search.

    • NegativeK 7 hours ago

      Not sure why the DOJ would permit that.

      • owebmaster 6 hours ago

        I mean a condition for Google to continue to exists and for the spinoff of Chrome to be economically viable. I don't care about both these outcomes tho.

nottorp 9 hours ago

800 on tracking, 150 on marketing and 50 on features that are useful for the user...

  • blitzar 8 hours ago

    0.5 people (part timer) on bug fixes, they slow roll the fixes for any of the bugs that are tracking loopholes.