24 May
2011
24 May
'11
4:43 p.m.
2011/5/24 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) raju@linux-delhi.org:
...until someone makes a more irresistible proprietary software and users flock to that, hurling freedom and portability out of the window in the process.
This back-and-forth is actually good for everyone. IE had an easy monopoly in browsers. Firefox set a cat among the pigeons in browser market.
But even Firefox got complacent after a while.
Later, Safari browsers came around and open-sourced WebKit (Google Chrome uses the same Engine). And recent versions of IE has caught up in terms of performance.
So basically, competition is good in long term.
-Shamit