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Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 24, 2024 10:33 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system by pizza
Parent article: Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

They lost the ruling, so they lost for sure. They had to unbundle IE too and give other browser equal opportunity to be the default browser.

If not for that, Internet history could be quite different.


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Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 24, 2024 14:30 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

> They lost the ruling, so they lost for sure.

They lost _on paper_ but by that point they long since accomplished what they set out to do, and are _still_ reaping the benefits. The fines they faced were a pittance, and the "default browser ballot" BS was per formative nonsense, because by that point IE was intimately tied into the entire MS business software ecosystem and _completely_ owned the corporate desktop + backend.

(What eventually broke that wasn't the browser ballot, but the rise of the modern smartphone)

> They had to unbundle IE too and give other browser equal opportunity to be the default browser.

Um, IE _never_ ceased to be bundled with MS Windows. It is a core component of Windows. [1] At best, the only thing "removed" was the icon that launched the "browser wrapper" around that built-in component. (Sure, it's now called "Edge" and is built on the Chrome engine instead of Triton, but it's still just as proprietary and intrinsicly bundled as ever!)

[1] An embedded browser engine is a core component of every OS, commercial or otherwise. released since Windows 98, and it's _not_ replacable.

Jujutsu: a new, Git-compatible version control system

Posted Jan 24, 2024 15:02 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Oops, I managed to put my reply to you in another subthread. See: https://lwn.net/Articles/959326/


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