Re:Chrome breaks the Web
by hinkley on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:30PM
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This is just arrogance.
From a historical perspective, this is nowhere near the sort of behavior one saw from Microsoft in the 90’s, but that’s pretty faint praise - nobody wants anything like that to happen again. You shouldn’t have people contributing to competing products out of spite.
I hope we never hit the point again where it is a cliche for FOSS people to bond over shared hatred of a company. I’d like to think we have been inoculated against that. I like to see people who will speak up like this early and often.
From a historical perspective, this is nowhere near the sort of behavior one saw from Microsoft in the 90’s, but that’s pretty faint praise - nobody wants anything like that to happen again. You shouldn’t have people contributing to competing products out of spite.
I hope we never hit the point again where it is a cliche for FOSS people to bond over shared hatred of a company. I’d like to think we have been inoculated against that. I like to see people who will speak up like this early and often.