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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's some mechanism in antitrust to prevent the broken up companies from doing things like that. Otherwise, a "primary" company would just contract out the old other pieces and they're basically whole again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s true, I just wonder if open source changes anything, legally. Unless one term of the breakup is “will not contribute to chromium”