Anti-monopoly legislation is important, but it is also important to create a mechanism for funding public goods. Browsers are necessary to keep the web open, an

Anti-monopoly legislation is important, but it is also important to create a mechanism for funding public goods. Browsers are necessary to keep the web open, and there should be a mechanism for society to fund that, even if it does cost $400 million a year. Current funding mechanisms for this sort of thing are focused on the creation of new scientific knowledge, but we also need funding focused on widely used open software.