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A comment on Microsoft's Three Browsers. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft's Three Browsers by nirui on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:31AM (#22234112)
> Unfortunately given the history of Microsoft & Firefox this was of course impossible due to Firefox being a derivative of Mozilla/Netscape

So, all that cakes was for nothing?

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Re:Microsoft's Three Browsers by SquareWheel on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:43AM (#22234490)
People romanticize a rivalry but in reality most browser vendors are friendly with each other. The cakes are a great example of that. They cooperate on standards and work towards common goals.

The top-level comment is disappointing. Blink (not WebKit) was chosen because it was the better technical decision. That's all.

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