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1. bagacr+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:12:23
...and Microsoft has more power than Google at the moment
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2. asadot+9a1[view] [source] 2023-07-26 18:25:50
>>bagacr+(OP)
But anti-trust stalled Microsoft's efforts at a critical time and allowed Firefox and Safari (like Gecko) to restore a standards-based web from an IE-based web. It's not a cure all but it worked. IE had 95% marketshare in 2002 and Firefox took a third of that from them in a few years thanks to anti-trust and the consent decree it forced on MS.
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3. bagacr+va2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 23:04:23
>>asadot+9a1
Chrome has nowhere near 95% market share so it would be hard to make the same case against them.

Given that it's open-source and anyone can roll and distribute a tweaked version of Chromium (and many have, notably Microsoft), it's really hard to see an argument here that Google is acting anti-competitively. If anything it's very pro-competitive to give away your secret sauce to your competitors.

Just because their browser is more popular than you would like, and you don't like a feature they're adding, doesn't mean a judge is going to stop them from adding it.

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