Re:W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domain...
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:46AM
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> "Hmmm, what stops Google from doing it anyway?"
The fear of getting a smackdown for being anti-competitive and too dominant, hopefully, much like the one Microsoft got during IE's dominance a couple of decades ago.
Microsoft adopting Chrome's code for its Edge browser is a brilliant bit of jujutsu; not only do they get to join the chorus of voices that say "Google's so powerful and anti-competitive that we had no choice but to adopt their browser engine", they also cut their engineering costs dramatically for their built in browser by having a competitor pay for it.
The fear of getting a smackdown for being anti-competitive and too dominant, hopefully, much like the one Microsoft got during IE's dominance a couple of decades ago.
Microsoft adopting Chrome's code for its Edge browser is a brilliant bit of jujutsu; not only do they get to join the chorus of voices that say "Google's so powerful and anti-competitive that we had no choice but to adopt their browser engine", they also cut their engineering costs dramatically for their built in browser by having a competitor pay for it.