The context here is that IE has absolutely dominated the browser market for years in 2005. So I read it as “Given we’re trying to have an alternative to IE, it

The context here is that IE has absolutely dominated the browser market for years in 2005. So I read it as “Given we’re trying to have an alternative to IE, it’s silly for us to further fracture the ecosystem, rather than collaborate on a viable contender.” Wikipedia shows november 2005 browser share as 88% IE, firefox at 8%, and netscape+other at 2%. (not sure why this doesn’t add up to 100%) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers