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Right, Google's misbehaviour is that they're trying to gain de facto control of the "web platform", while Microsoft's was that they were trying to prevent the "
by mjw1007 5y ago
Right, Google's misbehaviour is that they're trying to gain de facto control of the "web platform", while Microsoft's was that they were trying to prevent the "web platform" coming into existence as a competitor to Windows.
I think what Microsoft was doing was objectionable in itself.
I think what Google is doing is objectionable to the extent that they try to use that control to prevent people doing things they dislike (eg, their recent work to undermine ad-blockers).
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> while Microsoft's was that they were trying to prevent the "web platform" coming into existence as a competitor to Windows. Chrome only runs on Windows, some Linuxs, and some BSDs. It includes DRM that only works on some processors… It looks like Google is trying to prevent the "web platform" from continuing to exist as a competitor to Chrome, and I don't see how that's any different.
- gleenn 5y agoChrome runs on OSX too.
- wizzwizz4 5y agomacOS is a BSD. It would've been redundant to list it separately. :-)
- monocasa 5y agoEh, osx is its own thing at this point. The parts that really matter for a browser (UI/media, sandboxing, flipping page permissions from write to exec) are all osx specific.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago“Linux” isn't one target, either. You have X11, Wayland, PulseAudio, JACK, Pipewire… That's just the more common userland windowing and audio APIs. (Yes, most of them have compatibility modes for others, but they don't quite work as well as not using the compatibility modes.)