The discussion about the EC and Microsoft has a number of themes. I see these themes reflected in the response to my post and in the discussion in general. Some have been raised by Mozilla contributors. I’m going to try to respond to these general themes, although not every comment specifically. I’m going to start by addressing the themes in separate messages; I think that will make the discussions easier.
The themes I see so far are:
- Private responses, such as building Firefox, are the only appropriate response.
- Microsoft should be able to do whatever it wants; there’s no reason to treat Microsoft differently than anyone else.
- Government should have no role in technology, and Mozilla should not spend time with the EC.
- People can choose an alternative browser, so there’s no problem.
- All the remedies I can think of all have some serious problem: they are too late, they are backward-looking, or the don’t seem likely to help the consumer.
There may be other themes that appear or that I’ve missed with this first pass. Or two may show up as part of the same message, I’m not sure yet since I haven’t written them. But these are the topics I know now that I want to address.