> How can market share not be part of the discussion concerning who controls the web? Because market share can change. Its a statement of the past when we are

> How can market share not be part of the discussion concerning who controls the web? Because market share can change. Its a statement of the past when we are talking about the future. Put another way, would Google have had an easier time building Chrome and Chromium if IE had been 100% open source when Chrome was started? Remember, it wasn't that long ago that IE dominated, and MS still has many of the same advantages now that they had back then.