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Very few companies would be able to manage a gigantic project like Chromium.

I happen to be poking around the Chromium codebase the last few days. The size of the codebase itself is at the same level as all of our company's code. Something as important and critical as GPU rendering is only a small part of the entire project. You also have v8, ChromeOS, ANGLE etc to worry about, all requiring experts in those areas. Not to mention things like Widevine and other proprietary technology surrounding Chrome.

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I'll do it, if they agree to sell it to me, I'll run it.

I have a few hundred bucks that I'm willing to put into the pie, but based on the financials, it's probably going to go bankrupt pretty quick.

Yeah, probably not worth the money

> based on the financials, it's probably going to go bankrupt pretty quick.

Stage 1: Buy Chrome from Google, with its 65% browser market share.

Stage 2: Tell Google you'll keep them as default search provider for $5 billion per year.

Stage 3: Profit

But didn't Firefox run into funding issues because they can't sell Google the privilege of being the default search?

I'm pretty sure they can, and do. The vast majority of Mozillas revenues come from Google for being the default search provider. The fact that Google pays Mozilla, Apple and Samsung (among others) to be the default search provider has been an issue with regulators, but as far as I know there has been no rulings on it (yet?).

> Tell Google you'll keep them as default search provider for $5 billion per year

The DOJ is working to ban search deals too, you wouldn't receive a single penny. The DOJ is incomprehensibly incompetent compared to the EU DMA/DSA.

I assume this will create issues with Mozilla too?

It's 95% of an operating system. In a way it is it's own OS. Chromium has ~ 500+ distinct APIs and features such as web APIs, extension APIs, DOM, JavaScript APIs, and platform-specific features.

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