And the people to blame for this are the bureaucrats who went after Microsoft for Internet Explorer. By the time the antitrust cases in the US and EU had progressed, Internet Explorer was already losing ground. All IE development had to be supervised by a gov't appointed 3-person panel, originally supposed to expire in 2007 (the case ended in 2002) but because California and other states objected, it was extended until 2012.
By 2007, Firefox was already dominating IE. By 2012, IE was dead.
This should be a lesson, but instead people are going to sperg over Microsoft using open source software or how Facebook should be treated the way Microsoft was back then.
>mozzarella ceo says Did he say how bad was for the web the dropping of xul plugins?
Evan Butler
Oh fuck, I ruined it. *ahem* Is this thing on? LOO
Grayson Harris
>regulate social media to go after Facebook >Facebook, a $400bn company, hires an army of lawyers to ensure compliance >no other startup can ever pay these kinds of costs >Facebook becomes a government protected monopoly on social media It's coming sooner than you think
I agree but what could they have really done differently? It honestly seemed like that was the trend in the first place
Michael Sanders
Nowhere near as bad as Google becoming the new MS
Nicholas Martin
>too much control Microsoft already owns over a million domains. Google+MS+cloudflare+Facebook own the normie web. It's been like this for years and Microsoft using chromium won't make it any worse. It just means more standardization, even if a shit browser is becoming the standard.
