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Because market share can change. Its a statement of the past when we are talking about the future.
Put another way, would Google have had an easier time building Chrome and Chromium if IE had been 100% open source when Chrome was started?
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that IE dominated, and MS still has many of the same advantages now that they had back then.
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Because market share can change. Its a statement of the past when we are talking about the future.
Put another way, would Google have had an easier time building Chrome and Chromium if IE had been 100% open source when Chrome was started?
Remember, it wasn't that long ago that IE dominated, and MS still has many of the same advantages now that they had back then.