• karma_nder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      So the lawsuit appears to be looking at Google as a search engine monopoly, not web browser, right? And if I’m understanding this right, assuming this lawsuit goes anywhere, it would actually incentivize Google to pull funding from Firefox to no longer support that search engine exclusivity deal.

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        Google still benefits from having Firefox around, so that they can maintain less of an appearance of a monopoly in the browser space. Whatever way they fund Firefox, it’s still to their benefit to do so.

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      This is pretty much the same situation as when Apple faced bankruptcy a while back and Microsoft essentially bailed them out.

      Having an effective monopoly is better than a literal one for legal reasons