[N3WBI3]

Which means that a bunch of OSS zealots aren't going to be able to hijack Web standards

bwhahahah who's hijacking web standards? Pages designed correctly with w3c will render on Firefox, Opera, Safari, and ie... Come to think of the only web applications and site I have seen that will only work on one browser are ones tuned for ie... Microsoft has used market share to screw up standards..

I would prefer to see control over Web standards maintained by American commercial interests

And I would prefer that a single company (I don't care who it is) screw up existing web standards and in doing so destroy other products... but then again I'm not an MS fanboy..

[Bush2000]

Microsoft has used market share to screw up standards..

No, IE has *become* the standard. Which is fine by me. This ensures that American commercial interests continue to dictate the future direction of the Web, rather than bow to the Eurotrash, ChiComs, North Koreans, and Third Worlders...