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Comment Re: Deja Vu (Score 1) 155

The trial was about pushing one codebase that had both a browser and an OS in the same codebase. Microsoft wanted "explorer" to treat local files and web files the same, with one universal address bar for local and remote resources (using URLs for local and remote in one "explorer" app.)

The US courts said that the OS must consider remote files and local files DIFFERENT ASSETS and the OS must have DIFFERENT interfaces (win explorer and internet explorer) for "local" and "the internet."

This was, of course, well before "mobile" made everything the same, and everything an "app."

So, in 1995 we could have had a Windows that was actually an internet-OS, but the US government said "since Netscape exists, that's not allowed."

Fuck them.

Comment Re:First. World. Problems. Getting upset over pixe (Score 1) 152

I want there to be assholes in the game. So I can beat them. The best part about running into a 13-year-old nazi online is being able to kick the shit out of them, and then tell them that they lost because their stupid religion is weak AF, and they better give up that racist shit if they want to GET GOOD.

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