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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sametmax on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:41AM (#17226448)
> And there's the tactical argument of "the enemy of your enemy

I agree on this one. After all, IE is now in great shape because of the competition.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by skreutzer on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:11AM (#17226647)
IE is abandoned, isn't it? Keep in mind that Microsoft bought Andreessens code from NCSA after Andreessen left to found Netscape, so Netscape was competing against a bad version of itself, made worse by Microsoft.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sametmax on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:36AM (#17226798)
Edge is just a commercial IE alias. It's still IE, just like Firefox is still Firebird, a XUL based browser.
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