OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google

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?

voxadam · 8 months ago

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.

wmf · 8 months ago

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.

kurtoid · 8 months ago

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