More than browser wars, a war over the future of the web itself
Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite
By Nigel McFarlane, InformIT,
May 28, 2004 .
Web browsers and the open, public web are essential tools of modern libraries. But imagine a world without either and in its place a “proprietary global infrastructure.” Could this happen? This article says that is about to happen.
Slashdot has one of its usual spirited discussions of this article.