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.

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