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> The public managed to convince Intel to disable the serial number feature of their processors 23 years ago. At a time when technology companies were just com
by p-e-w 3y ago
> The public managed to convince Intel to disable the serial number feature of their processors 23 years ago.
At a time when technology companies were just companies – not the system that effectively runs much of the world.
Mozilla also pushed Microsoft out of a core market once. That would never happen today, regardless of how good Firefox becomes.
Today's technology industry is nothing like it was in the 90s. "The public" has as much chance of stopping WEI as it has of getting the United States Military to disarm.
- bawolff 3y ago> Mozilla also pushed Microsoft out of a core market once. That would never happen today, regardless of how good Firefox becomes. Didn't chrome effectively do that in the present? Edge is barely an independent browser
- p-e-w 3y agoYeah, but Google is a million times more powerful than Mozilla. Which is the whole point.
- TedDoesntTalk 3y ago> Today's technology industry is nothing like it was in the 90s Mozilla did not dethrone IE in the 90s. And I disagree with your statement that end users (“the public”) can’t stop a browser feature. MV3 was scaled back because of this.