AngryNil
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Lol that's like someone buying a car and telling the person don't drive it when its raining because the acid from the rain destroys the car, that its not the car manufactures fault.
Ah, the dreaded car analogy rears its head. I'm going to enjoy digging myself into a hole by responding to car analogy with car analogy.
The acid rain argument doesn't work because no one controls the acid rain. This situation would be more comparable to a community building its roads with a material that will poke holes in tyres from some manufacturers. Those tyres are certified roadworthy and there are guidelines in place on how to build roads so they work for everybody, but the community decided it doesn't need to bother about those things because most people seem to have tyres which won't be affected.
But why don't those affected manufacturers just use the same tyre composition as the unaffected companies? Ah, because that particular tyre composition - Webkit - is actually flawed in other aspects, and god forbid that we converge to it as a standard after its creators have proven to be completely ignorant of those issues. And of course, there's the conventional wisdom that competition is good for the consumer - though I guess that doesn't seem to compute in most people's minds when the competition is Microsoft.
Good read here: https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/