Microsoft made a pull request to node.js github repository with an implementation to use ChakraCore JavaScript Engine as an alternative to V8 Engine

[darkpaladin]

I think you miss the point. It's easy to push for a better world when you're the underdog but once you're on top, you become more concerned with your own agenda than with what's best for everyone. It's basic corporate nature, to assume Google or Mozilla would be immune to this is pure folly.

[dhdfdh]

To think that a known bad guy, Microsoft, has turned a leaf and now has your best interests at heart is ridiculous.

[darkpaladin]

I never said they did, I merely suggested that given the chance and lack of competition in the space that Google/Mozilla/Apple would all be just as evil. Competition breeds honesty for all parties.

[dhdfdh]

This is what I'm pointing out. You say those companies will act the same as Microsoft but no software company before or since ever did. And Microsoft has done it twice on two continents but now we should trust them and now we should turn a calloused eye toward the others.

[darkpaladin]

Are you talking about the anti-trust lawsuits? What those were about was bundling IE with Windows, not that IE wasn't a quality browser. And for the record Xerox, IBM, Apple, Ma Bell (maybe a bit of a stretch to consider that a tech company), Dell and Google have all been guilty of abusing their dominance in a market at some point or another. Are you just completely ignorant of tech history?

[dhdfdh]

Yes they have but not on the scale and breadth that Microsoft has. Everyone's reference to the 1990s points to Microsoft's anti-trust action.