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OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google

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Personally I don't regard that as a good safe harbour for that codebase.

At this point, if it's not google, who it is would be a good question and if its IPR to the highest bidder, I think we all lost.

the nuances of what is being bought are important. Does chromium simply disappear in this model?

I agree, OpenAI is absolutely the wrong company to take over Chrome. I was thinking maybe Cloudflare might be a decent steward of the project/product.

Cloudflare spends ~$400M/year on R&D while Chrome may be spending almost that much alone. Whoever buys Chrome needs to earn >$1B in revenue from it either directly or through some sort of synergy.

Why does acquisition of chrome demand $1b in revenue as an outcome? Why does chrome demand $400m in input spend ongoing, if it no longer has to deliver Google specific changes?

What's braves spend?

Brave takes open source chromium code, which is majority funded by Google, and adds things on top of it.

People underestimate how expensive it is to build a browser. There's a reason why we have only 3 major engines. Firefox (struggling), Chromium (Google backed) and Safari (Apple backed)

We have made the web far too complicated, and attempted to replicate a world of other programming paradigms into what was intended to be a remote folder browsing API

> Why does chrome demand $400m in input spend ongoing, if it no longer has to deliver Google specific changes?

I don't know if it needs $400m but I wouldn't be surprised if it's $20m+ just to keep the browser secure.

Google paid out $12m last year in bug bounties and I assume they spend that much or more for in-house security researchers/developers (headcount is expensive) and periodic independent audits of the codebase.

Oh no - I could see them do something WEI combined with Turnstile

Given OpenAI is 49% owned by Microsoft, effective MS ownership of Chrome doesn't feel like a good anti-trust move.....

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