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Only a matter of time when Chromium operating subsystem start to be incompatible with Firefox.
So, all those years creating "web standards" are for nothing, as turned out with too many standards no one is able to implement them, leaving only one existing browser to still operate. We won't even know if websites are compatible with a standard anymore, because Chrome interpretation might me different from any other.
Oh it was for something! It allowed Google to take over using Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" philosophy.
What Google is doing now is exactly what Microsoft did back in the Netscape Navigator / Internet Explorer days.
It's almost like the tendency to monopolise is somehow baked into the ruling economic ideology, huh?
Market economies = great. Capitalism = shit. There's a subtle but meaningful difference.
Capitalism is great, it just needs a strong and unbiased referee. Of course that can be said about any political or economic system.
So you're saying strong regulation from some entity that isn't driven by the same motives for profit is needed?
That's my point. You're conflating "market economies" to "capitalism". They aren't the same. Markets existed thousand of years before capitalism.
Just like "capitalism" has been conflated with "market economy", "communism" has been conflated with "socialism". The failed communist states all tried planned economies, which meant no market economies, which are necessary for thriving societies.
Socialism is when the means of production are "owned or regulated" by the government. Strong, well regulated markets are by definition, socialist.
I also sort of slightly disapprove of perpetuating the "well mothing's perfect (so we shouldn't bother trying to fix the most obviously broken bullshit systems despite having solutions)" -notion.
It's worrisome, but it's not exactly the same.
We'll see whether they get abusive, and whether the Federal antitrust laws will come in and nearly dismantle the company like they did to Microsoft.
Web standards are the literal opposite of that. You're arguing against the web itself.
It was a power grab not a standardization. They planned this to wall you outta their networks if you won’t let them spy on you.