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DARING FIREBALL: IS CHROME EVEN A SELLABLE ASSET?
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Forcing Google to sell Chrome as a remedy for antitrust violations is impractical from both business and technical perspectives. Chrome's value is intrinsically linked to Google's ecosystem, not as a standalone entity, and a buyer would essentially only acquire the potential to collect traffic acquisition fees from Google, similar to Apple's Safari. Technically, Chrome is largely based on the open-source Chromium project, making its proprietary value questionable.