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A comment on Microsoft's Three Browsers. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft's Three Browsers by WorldMaker on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:07PM (#22231272)
It's not a great reason, but it is an interesting failure [1] case of the open source model, when someone else's open source project becomes your own liability because so many of your own customers use it.

[1] Arguably a success case in some viewpoints; it's sometimes why people promote open source.

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Re:Microsoft's Three Browsers by jdc on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:56PM (#22231589)
Beats having to maintain bug compatibility to keep popular proprietary code running though
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Re:Microsoft's Three Browsers by WorldMaker on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:44PM (#22238528)
Though at least when Microsoft was doing that they were documenting those bugs and bringing them all to web platform standards boards for review. Now they are more likely to contribute such bugs to the web platform again without documenting them, leaving probably poor Mozilla the only ones left to notice.
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