Google would maintain intellectual property ownership, and can even continue to be the default search engine. When the decade is up, stewardship could be passed to another, or otherwise reviewed.
Ecosia, which uses Google to power its search engine, already has a revenue-share partnership with the tech giant. And it already offers its own browser built on the Chromium open source engine that powers Chrome. That’s why Kroll thinks the stewardship idea isn’t so out-of-line. “We would be happy to manage Chrome for them,” he says. Ecosia is even offering to maintain employment for the Chrome staff.
Sounds like they’re offering Google a workaround. They won’t manage it, but all the reasons for the court’s decision get to remain. And then in a decade or whatever, Google will just take it back since they never really relinquished ownership to begin with.
My guess is that the appeal will erase the decision. Trump fired all the antitrust experts from the DOJ and replaced them with corporate cronies.
https://www.vox.com/politics/458685/trump-doj-antitrust-roger-alford-mizelle-hewlett-packard