Same old story?

...does this mean we need a better browser? or does it mean we have to get another browser, dealing with different protocols and standards?
...because that joke has created wars, offering a proof that nobody succeeds against size of a monopoly, no matter how sane and obvious are his claims. Developers have suffered quite a lot out of unnecessary revolutions, driven from "the better alternative", that will deliver us to a better productivity environment. Why doesn't MS bother to see realize that she cannot even follow the obvious path of copying other people's collective work any longer? Wouldn't it be a chance that even MS may realize that a better alternative would be to unify and support other people's pioneering work -nowadays happening all around the world?
...but, I suppose, that sounds more like IT philanthropy and not competition, by the predicament of what we have been left with, out of our "entrepreneurial" spirit.

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