Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: The worst case scenario would be a repeat of the NN4/IE disinvestment duopoly era, a ...
The worst case scenario would be a repeat of the NN4/IE disinvestment duopoly era, a nightmare period after IE had effectively won but before the rise of Firefox where the only browser that wasn’t genuinely outright awful was IE Mac.
Except this time browsers are much more complex software
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