> IE wasn’t stopped with legislation Yes it was. You're ignoring all the other things proprietary about IE and only considering the OS bundle one. JScript, VB

> IE wasn’t stopped with legislation Yes it was. You're ignoring all the other things proprietary about IE and only considering the OS bundle one. JScript, VBScript, and ActiveX were the real problem. There we so many proprietary extensions to IE that were not even remotely supported elsewhere. Hell, C# even came out of the hell that was Microsoft's JVM, J++, and J# thanks to those trials