So basically M$ needs to be forced to bundle browsers from their competitors on Windows to encourage competition just because there are people out there who are ignorant of a better alternative? Firefox is getting pretty mainstream and has 32% marketshare. There are hot chicks I know (who aren't computer geeks by any stretch of the imagination) who use Firefox. Firefox is not just a thing within the open-source movement anymore. The mainstream is using it. If someone can't figure out what the other options are, it's their own fault. The options are very easy to find. More nanny state BS from the EU government.
EU are a bunch of hypocrites. "Oh let's go after M$ for their "monopoly" (when IE only owns 60% or so of the web browser market now) while Apple has a complete hardware monopoly on the Mac platform. The Mac is a closed platform (almost like a console even except you don't need to pay licensing fees to Apple if you want to create software to run on their hardware and OS), unlike the PC and yet you don't see the EU government going after them. It's become the hip arthouse indie "rebel" thing to bash M$ and like Mac even though their practices are more anti-competitive than M$ (by having a closed platform).
I fully support the open-source movement (short of installing Linux. Because not all pieces of software I use are supported by Linux). But what's happening to M$ is completely unfair. How about the EU go down hard on Apple for a change?
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