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Why the US forced sale of Google's Chrome faces legal hurdles
(www.reuters.com)
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Given that even Mozilla (who has significantly less resources than Google) had the ability to create a second web engine and then abandon it, it would be dumb to think that Google doesn’t have at least 2 or 3 teams working on different browsers or engines for no reason.
Unless they’re prohibited from creating another web browser ever again (which would most likely be a bad idea), they can probably come up with a working browser in less than two years
Servo was a research project for mozilla, the cool stuff in it was shoved into firefox
the proposal included a 5 year ban on any browsering
I guess 5 years is not too bad, but the judge would probably never agree to the ban.
I guess it wouldn't be terrible if they made another browser then there might be three half decent browser engines to chose from: Firefox, old chromium and new chromium (probably called something else)