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It's worse even than that.

As long as one company controls the One Rendering Engine, all websites are tested against that One Rendering Engine (i.e. not the truth of the spec).

It becomes impossible to create a new rendering engine without actively copying the quirks behaviours.

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It also - and this is why folks got so keyed up about the last browser monoculture - makes it impossible to create a successful alternative software platform without the support of the One Rendering Engine. So it becomes an agent of an overall software monoculture.

Sadly, I fear that the reason Free Software folks don't seem to be getting quite so keyed up about Chrome is that, at least for now, the One Rendering Engine happens to work on Linux. It seems that even principles can be mercenary.

This is true. The importance of a good browser to Linux cannot be overstated.

In other words, Flash is back.

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