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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Strongly agree with a good 3/4 of this by @pluralistic:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/#fucking-shit-goddammit-fuck
The best outcome would have been for Chrome and Android to have been spunt out into non-profits, endowed with the cash Google has been paying Apple to avoid any more competition across apps/search/web.
It has not helped matters that neither the DOJ, nor most civil society orga, could see through private equity-adjacent market logic to understand the public interest in these software projects. Big own goals.