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The main issue with IE using MSN (or whatever it's called now) as their default home page or search engine is not a moral issue, it is an antitrust issue. Micr
by sjs382 18y ago
The main issue with IE using MSN (or whatever it's called now) as their default home page or search engine is not a moral issue, it is an antitrust issue. Microsoft's IE has a monopoly (at least until recently and maybe still), and they are leveraging the browser monopoly to give them an advantage in another industry (Search).
Mozilla has no monopoly, and thus their use of (a sponsored) Google search box is not anticompetitive.
- sjs382 18y agoAnd one more thing.... You're free to create a fork of Firefox that uses Yahoo by default or whatever your heart desires. Just don't call it Firefox. Haha
- DenisM 18y agoAnd if you don't like IE or windows, go write your own IE and/or windows. See? This sort of logic cuts both ways.
- josefresco 18y agoThank You ... seriously, it's promising to see people in this discussion who actually can see beyond the Google/Firefox fog.
- rory096 18y agoNot exactly. Creating a fork is much different from writing one's own Firefox- it's just copying code and changing the default browser bit, not writing an entire web browser that's exactly the same.
- DenisM 18y agolegal != moral