Google isn't really a monopoly though. They out-compete others for their market share, Chrome is open source, they abide by and push open standards, etc... They don't abuse their position like Microsoft did.
> Those waging the browser-wars and evangelising the "push the web forward" propaganda
Really? Thanks to this 'propaganda' the vast majority of software (ie. web apps) runs on every platform there is; Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, and iOS, kinda on the last one as Apple is dragging their feet with Safari.
> Google isn't really a monopoly though. They out-compete others for their market share, Chrome is open source, they abide by and push open standards, etc... They don't abuse their position like Microsoft did.
You must be kidding, right? If you are not, please take a look at performance problems various Google websites have in Firefox. Or how recaptcha behaves in FF. This is exactly the sort of abuse of power that MS yielded in the days of IE supremacy.
EDIT: about propaganda, Chrome was late to the party and while it sped up the IE demise, it would have happened anyway. Except we wouldn’t land in "all your data belongs to us" browser monoculture in which we are now.
Also, I'm sure they "abide by and push open standards"... the same ones they created and churn constantly.
Chrome is definitely NOT open source --- you may be thinking of Chromium, but then it doesn't matter anyway because they change it so often others can't compete.
> Those waging the browser-wars and evangelising the "push the web forward" propaganda
Really? Thanks to this 'propaganda' the vast majority of software (ie. web apps) runs on every platform there is; Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, and iOS, kinda on the last one as Apple is dragging their feet with Safari.