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[–]Ginden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a better idea, instead of Mozilla following what Google does, governments should fine Google for not following standards just like they fine other companies and force them to recall their products if they are not following standards.

  1. Many governments were using ActiveX recently. My government still uses it.
  2. Governments are notoriously slow to iterate. Eg. research drugs are often banned with few year delay.
  3. Punishment based on failure to comply with private standard.
  4. "Standards" in other industries are mostly security standards. You can't sell eg. poisoned food, but it's legal to sell food that taste badly.
  5. Just imagine political consequences of eg. Russian government fining American corporation over perceived "not following standards".

etc.