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Re:Why I use Firefox by bachmeier on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @09:56AM (#39538734)
This seems to be a popular opinion, but I believe they probably do it because it's good for their bottom line. The MS case was very different. The only relevant market was desktop computing, they had a monopoly on the desktop OS market, they baked the browser into the OS for no good reason, and they were taking actions to make OS competition impossible. Having a high desktop browser market share number honestly isn't a problem.
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Re:Why I use Firefox by Aeolun on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @10:03AM (#39538823)
It’s also hard to argue they don’t allow competition when literally anyone can pull the source at any time.
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Re:Why I use Firefox by Zambyte on Thursday February 29, 2024 @12:04PM (#39552070)
I don't think that's relevant to the argument about competition. Being able to pull (most) of their source code doesn't make it easy to write a competing browser engine. Why do you think writing a browser engine is an impossibly daunting task nowadays? Who made the web this way?
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Re:Why I use Firefox by cptskippy on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @10:48AM (#39539496)
Every major tech company has used the outcome of the MS Monopoly Trial as a playbook of dos and don'ts to avoid getting sued.
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