• meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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        They killed Netscape and had to put in a toggle with the option of other browsers like 10 years later. They paid next to nothing in fines and legal battles, basically putting a stranglehold on the internet itself that took another 10 to kinda of undo.

        Not sure if that’s a “loss.”

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          Wrong decade. We’re talking about having internet explorer pre installed on windows 95 and 98. It was a really big antitrust thing.

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        microsoft is pulling all their dirty tricks from the 90s unchecked rn.

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      Ehh maybe, widevine exists for drm already. They will just claim its an extension of that.