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minus-squareBuelldozer@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago So, all those years creating “web standards” are for nothing… Oh it was for something! It allowed Google to take over using Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” philosophy. What Google is doing now is exactly what Microsoft did back in the Netscape Navigator / Internet Explorer days.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago What Google is doing now is exactly what Microsoft did back in the Netscape Navigator / Internet Explorer days. It’s almost like the tendency to monopolise is somehow baked into the ruling economic ideology, huh? Market economies = great. Capitalism = shit. There’s a subtle but meaningful difference.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoWeb standards are the literal opposite of that. You’re arguing against the web itself.
Oh it was for something! It allowed Google to take over using Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” philosophy.
What Google is doing now is exactly what Microsoft did back in the Netscape Navigator / Internet Explorer days.
It’s almost like the tendency to monopolise is somehow baked into the ruling economic ideology, huh?
Market economies = great. Capitalism = shit. There’s a subtle but meaningful difference.
Web standards are the literal opposite of that. You’re arguing against the web itself.