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netdevphoenixlast Tuesday at 4:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

The wider point here is that you can only use FF as long as Mozilla can fund it and Mozilla can only fund it as long as Google funds them. At some point, it will be cheaper for Google to pay monopoly fines than funding Mozilla.


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SoftTalkerlast Tuesday at 5:05 PM

Fines aren't a way to just buy your way out of obeying the law. At some point if they persist in monopolistic activities then they will get broken up.

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lelanthranlast Tuesday at 6:10 PM

There's penalties other than fines for abusive monopolies.

Fines are only the slightest punishment.