This situation—a single company controlling web standards—is what everyone freaked out about in the Windows 95 era, but the emergence of Google as de facto regulatory authority for the web doesn't seem to rankle people as much as it should.https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1293623047518334977 …
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Except that it’s not small hobbyists alone — Microsoft also uses it and contributes, which is *wild hand waving* practically a fork.
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Say you split Chrome and now try to find a way to fund it - you find yourself like Mozilla, with little leverage to monetize. And Google can take chromium again and ship a new version :-)
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Is the suggestion to bar Google from producing web browsers? Or something else?
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