Comment on Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 1 year agoIn the same way it’s not anti-competitive for Apple to require Safari on iOS.
Oh wait. It is. But only google and microsoft get in trouble and apple always gets a free pass.
520@kbin.social 1 year ago
Methinks there is a history lesson you haven't learned.
MS didn't get into trouble just for bundling their browser. They got into trouble using every strongarm tactic they could think of to kill the browser market. They broke competitors, deliberately crippled APIs while IE used undocumented faster ones, and put IE in customer faces whether they wanted it there or not. MS used this tactic repeatedly to corner other markets, such as productivity suites. That's why MS got nailed.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At one point it went from an optional download to being required for the offering system. At that point you weren’t allowed to uninstall it.
Of course that was back before the government was completely owned by tech corporations.