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Wow you really don't remember what it was like to have a single browser engine dominate the landscape.

Imagine a world where the state of the web ecosystem's faith is down to just Google and Apple.



> Wow you really don't remember what it was like to have a single browser engine dominate the landscape.

My memory is definitely fuzzy, but I remember Netscape Navigator 4 wasting years on a scratch rewrite, and Internet Explorer becoming complacent.

Why would it be a problem for an open source browser engine to become dominant? At what point should we be worried if Linux becomes too popular?




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