Comment by Hizonner
> So billions of dollars of capital invested by Google on R&D results in all of the IP being seized with a $250m/year annual obligation?
Yep. Billions of dollars of capital knowingly invested in an illegal enterprise results in penalties. Film at 11.
...except Chrome was not and is not an illegal enterprise.
The charges were against search and ads.
If the government made a decision like this it would discourage companies from trying to invest in OSS the way that Google has. Considering that this model has worked out amazingly well for the average person, that would be bad.