LCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billionwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billionwww.theverge.comLCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down2·3 days agothey know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 days agoBut they wouldn’t have the user base, and therefore their data.
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 days agoIt would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet
minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 days agoI was being facetious
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agomy bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoDon’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”
minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI wasn’t trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time
they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
But they wouldn’t have the user base, and therefore their data.
It would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet
I was being facetious
my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”
I wasn’t trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time