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I was so glad it died. It was a weird proprietary replacement for Flash, which itself was weird and proprietary, except the new one was owned by a huge company that publicly stated they wanted to crush Linux and friends.

A big chunk of their strategy at the time was around how to completely own the web. I celebrated every time their attempts failed.



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