LCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billionwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1264arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1260arrow-down1external-linkPerplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billionwww.theverge.comLCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down2·1 year agothey know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 year agoIt would buying the name and user base and they already have a fork called Comet
minus-squaregnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoI was being facetious
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agomy bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoI wasn’t trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoBut they wouldn’t have the user base, and therefore their data.
they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?
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
But they wouldn’t have the user base, and therefore their data.