A long time ago I wrote an extensive comment--with tons of documented references--here showing how broken everyone has the story of IE: Microsoft was in fact th

A long time ago I wrote an extensive comment--with tons of documented references--here showing how broken everyone has the story of IE: Microsoft was in fact the savior that came to save us from the world of Netscape... Mozilla was great, and had to save us from the new world of post-antitrust Microsoft (which now had a dominant platform they were too afraid to maintain); but Netscape was just as much of a bully as anyone else :(, and so the W3C was pumped about MS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192490 (edit:) I just remembered that many years later I gave a talk that contained a follow-up to some of the thoughts about Microsoft (it is a big part of the talk, but not the beginning or the end). https://vimeo.com/310654342 https://vimeo.com/310654342 (edit again:) OMG people seem to be enjoying this comment, but I stupidly linked to the wrong old comment up there (and even that link is weird: the best part of that thread is a few parents up from that link)... and it is so sad as the actual comment was one I was so proud of... here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4826113