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How about this: sell the browser to the entreprise [1] and use the profit to offer the browser to the public for free, which in turns helps you secure a user base.

[1] https://www.island.io/






Google already does sell Chrome to the enterprise at $6/user/month[1]. Disclosure: I work at Google.

[1] https://chromeenterprise.google/products/chrome-enterprise-p...


You raise an interesting point. Every job that I worked in the last 10 years offers "real" Google Chrome on a Windows PC. I never considered that they would pay Google for it, but I guess Google could add a bunch of nice admin and security features that would be useful to mega-corps but retail normies don't care about. That is probably well-worth the 6 USD per month per user. In a modern corporate workplace, a huge amount of your day is spent using web apps... running in Google Chrome (or Electron!). It like a WebVM that runs inside of Microsoft Windows (from the perspective of corporate IT folks).

Well, Island raised $3B for a reason [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-30/enterpris...


The article you linked to says they raise $175mio at a _valuation_ of $3b

Oh my bad, thanks for catching this!

So the browser isn't open source then. Sounds like a net loss for the public good.

I watched their video: it's Chromium with specific modifications.



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