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KILL THE COMPETITORS! KILL THEM ALL!

Patrick says

requiring manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and Google’s Chrome browser and requiring them to set Google Search as default search service on their devices, as a condition to license certain Google proprietary apps;

Reminiscent of Microsoft, isn't it?

Capitalism is mutually exclusive with
- competition
- free markets
- maximizing productivity and growth
- democracy
- liberty

Time to replace capitalism with Americanism.

Patrick says

competing operating systems

I would really like to see a non-profit open source operating system for smartphones and tablets.

Mozilla began to develop one in Firefox OS, but a technology director who had designed JavaScript made the OS into a JavaScript delivery vehicle. Users could not block JavaScript, even though JavaScript crashed devices and caused users to lose data: "A way to turn off JavaScript and/or images in the browser would immensely help...but Firefox OS has no such option." (In contrast, on PC and Mac, the most popular add-on for Firefox browser is NoScript, which exists solely to block JavaScript. The Firefox phones did not allow NoScript.) Also, Mozilla having been funded partly by Google, the Firefox phones avoided competing in Android's most lucrative markets, especially the USA. Firefox OS became basically another charitable "white man's burden" project, providing a hobbled OS to poor people who had been otherwise of little interest to the capitalist OS writers.

Since Android is an advertising platform, and iOS is proprietary, the goal of a nonprofit open source OS remains elusive.

curious2 says

Mozilla began to develop one in Firefox OS, but a technology director who had a stake in Java made it into a Java delivery vehicle. Users could not block Java, even though Java crashed devices and caused users to lose data: "A way to turn off JavaScript and/or images in the browser would immensely help...but Firefox OS has no such option."

Just to clarify, Java and JavaScript are two entirely different and unrelated things. JavaScript was originally called LiveScript but the name was changed to JavaScript solely to market it during a time when Java was very popular. The two platforms have nothing in common but the name Java.

Dan8267 says

Just to clarify, Java and JavaScript are two entirely different and unrelated things. JavaScript was originally called LiveScript but the name was changed to JavaScript solely to market it during a time when Java was very popular. The two platforms have nothing in common but the name Java.

Thanks. The guy in question had designed JavaScript, not Java. I have corrected my comment.