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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by kuschku on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:56PM (#13950321)
> Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google.[11] It was first released in 2008, for Microsoft Windows

> BrowserChoice.eu was a website created in March 2010 as the result of the decision in the European Union Microsoft competition case. The case involved legal proceedings by the EU against Microsoft and found that, by including Internet Explorer (IE) with their market-dominant Windows operating system, Microsoft had used their dominance of the operating system market to also create a dominant market position in the web browser market.

I’m confused, what are you trying to say? Chrome didn’t exist until 2017?

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by areyousure on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:11PM (#13950459)
The case referenced by most US commenters would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

I've never known whether European antitrust (or privacy) action against companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook has had significant global/US effect. Do you (or anyone else) know of a good source on this?

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by kuschku on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:32PM (#13950643)
Ah okay – I’ve never heard of the US antitrust case, so I don’t know what effects it had.

Regarding effects of BrowserChoice, Opera had some statistics: https://web.archive.org/web/20111209114445/http://my.opera.c...

Mozilla also reports how much they lost due to BrowserChoice not running for a while – BrowserChoice had almost doubled their overall download rate: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-lost-6-9-million-downlo...

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