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> 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

> 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 ago
Chrome runs on OSX too.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  macOS is a BSD. It would've been redundant to list it separately. :-)
  - monocasa 5y ago
    Eh, 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.)