[xnx]

There is soooo much scummy surveillance and data stealing that a nefarious owner of Chrome could achieve. People say Google is "evil" but that isn't a fraction of the total tracking and wholesale private content harvesting a different owner would monetize.

[mritun]

Frankly there isn’t much money in surveillance - with the “Google” and the four colors gone I doubt the “Chrome” brand is going to be worth much. “Blackrock Private Equity LLC Chrome” just does not have the ring.

The money is in Chrome patents and copyright. One can go to town and blitzkrieg the NodeJS ecosystem which has super deep pockets. SCO will look baby-talk.