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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah. We’ve already seen this effect with WordPress and Android and Apache/Nginx. There was a day when I was weird for betting against MS IIS for web hosting, and people were sure the commercial Internet would remain proprietary forever.

We saw companies try and fail to privatize HTML many (ActiveX, Flash, SilverLight, various versions of IE).

Open specifications always win.

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Depends on if branding takes lead. There is a reason people use Chrome instead of Chromium. Nginx is a prime example, 99% of people think their server less hosting is some special AWS branded product, and not Kubernetes and Nginx they could run on a VM for a fraction of the cost.

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