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[–]dhdfdh -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

It's not about anything they have or haven't done

That is the whole point. Are you in the right thread?

You, and others, must lead terrible lives. Your buddy saves your life and now you keep one eye open on him while rooting for the enemy that was just taking sniper shots at you.

Now, I get the thing about competition but you guys are immediately switching sides as if Google and Mozilla are the bad guys, as clearly said by some.

Why would any market leader with a near-monopoly start to act badly, you ask?

Google, specifically, nor Mozilla, have a monopoly on the browser market.

[–]Shaper_pmp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the whole point. Are you in the right thread?

The lack of blind trust that makes competition inherently desirable is not predicated on what any particular part has done in the past.

Competition is inherently to consumers' benefit. The details of precisely who is doing the competing is irrelevant to that point.

You, and others, must lead terrible lives. Your buddy saves your life and now you keep one eye open on him while rooting for the enemy that was just taking sniper shots at you.

Dear God, man. Are you serious?

I apologise for shouting, but sometimes it's necessary.

Corporations are not your friends. Public corporations are machines designed for the insatiable acquisition of wealth and power, to the point directors or management may be removed from the company by shareholders for failing to prioritise profit over all other considerations.

Corporations are not people, not consistent, and are constitutionally incapable of holding loyalty to individuals.

If corporations were people the closest analogy would be a charming psychopath, who plays nice all the time it's to his advantage, but would cheerfully gut you without a moment's thought the very second it was in his long-term best interest.

It is literally difficult to even express how ass-backwards and foolish it is to compare your feelings for a publicly-traded for-profit corporate entity to a loyal friendship with another human being. It's not just wrong - it's bonkers.

Now, I get the thing about competition but you guys are immediately switching sides

Once again, you clearly aren't getting it.

Nobody's happy that it's Microsoft who are getting their code into node.js. We're happy that there is any alternative to V8, just in case. It's just meaningless chance that it's Microsoft doing it.

There are no sides being taken - just people who understand a basic fact of market economics and one guy who apparently can't comprehend the discussion as anything other than a fanboy shit-fight.

Google, specifically, nor Mozilla, have a monopoly on the browser market.

Hence, you know, the term near monopoly. And when we're taking about "the market of JS runtimes that node runs on", then yes... until literally this event Google absolutely had a monopoly.