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…Truly independent web browser. We really need that. But I can hold that thought in my head at the same time I hold the thought in my head that Google Chrome was pivotal to the web surviving as the premier web development platform. If it had not been for Google and their entire business depending on a thriving open web, Apple, Microsoft I think would’ve been just as fine to see the web go away to disappear into being something that’s just served native mobile applications and native desktop applications that they could completely control. So I have all sorts of problems with Google, but it’s not Chrome. Chrome is a complete gift to web developers everywhere, to the web as a development platform, and they deserve an enormous amount of credit I think for that. Even if it’s entangled with their business model and half of Chrome is code that spies on you or informs targeted ads and a bunch of things I’m not a big fan of, I can divorce that from the fact that we need champions in the corner of the web who have trillions of dollars of market cap value riding on the open web. We’re going to take tangents upon a tangent upon a tangent. So let’s go to Chrome. I think Chrome positive impact on humanity is immeasurable for reasons that you just described. On the technology front, the features that present the competition they created, it’s spurred on this wonderful flourishing of web technologies. But anyway, I have to ask you about the recent stuff with the DOJ trying to split up Chrome and Google. Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think this does harm?…

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