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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by andsoitis on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:08PM (#33430645)
What's an example of an open protocol (what this thread is about) where MSFT successfully followed this strategy?
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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by thrown_22 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:31PM (#33430795)
HTML before IE6. At one point Microsoft owned the web browser market to the same degree that Google owns it today.
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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by bogantech on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:18AM (#33433573)
Anything from this century?
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Re:Centralization Is Inevitable by thrown_22 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:48AM (#33434211)
IE6 was the most popular web browser until 2008. It wasn't until 2010 that we finally could somewhat ignore it when it dropped below 20% market share. It was a happy day when I could completely ignore it in corporate in 2018 when it was uninstalled from all computers.
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