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minus-squareJamie@jamie.moelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoI’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.
minus-squarePixelPlumber@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThat’s true, I just wonder if open source changes anything, legally. Unless one term of the breakup is “will not contribute to chromium”
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.
That’s true, I just wonder if open source changes anything, legally. Unless one term of the breakup is “will not contribute to chromium”