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1. If the issue is W3C compliance, then a solution is to make MS issue a W3C compliant browser.
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For years people complained and Microsoft did nothing about it - IE5 was horribly broken, IE6 was amazingly broken, IE7 was still broken.
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2. If the web was truly stagnated by IE6, then the web should still be frozen to the technology of IE6.
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Stagnation does not mean standstill - it means slowing down of development. Much like religions have slowed down human development over our history so did the existence of a market leader browser slow down the adoption of new ideas.
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Still, the success of Firefox seems to put a significant damper on Opera's argument that 'Windows + IE = no market share for anyone else'.
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That's not really a fair comparison - no other browser (and there have been many) has been able to snatch market share from IE apart from Firefox and let's see why - perhaps it has something to do with the multi-billion dollar company that was sponsoring Mozilla?
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Mozilla and their Firefox browser accomplished what Opera didn't (and hasn't) under the same conditions.
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Not even close - Firefox has been sponsored by Google from the start up. Opera started as Payware while Firefox started as Open Source, mainly because at the time Opera didn't really have much of a choice - someone had to pay the bills.
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Lastly, where does the money from these fines go? Are the fines used for assisting the harmed enterprises? Or does the EU just use it like tax revenue?
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In the case of AMD and Intel, AMD was awarded 60% of the punishment, rest goes to EU - however in the case of Opera they won't get much if anything at all.