Normally, I agree with most of what Matt Asay writes about open source and related matters at his “The Open Road” blog at Cnet. But here he is wrong:

Opera, Microsoft, and competition: A plea for an end to the whining

Today, a lot of people are using Firefox, Safari and other alternatives to Internet Explorer, but they remain “alternatives”. Here in Denmark, Internet Explorer remains the clearly dominant browser to a large extent due to that public institutions “forces” users to use Internet Explorer. I am not at all convinced that market forces will for a long time level the playing field.

And as long as there is no real competition between different browsers in a lot of important areas I applaud that small players like Opera takes on the not all envious task of using the courts to remedy the situation – however ineffective this remedy might be.

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