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by bradleyland 5309 days ago
Go ahead and ignore the elephant in the room: Chrome is open source, IE6 is proprietary software. IE was a means to an end for Microsoft, and that end was extinguishing the uprising that is the internet. They almost succeeded, but ultimately failed.

Chrome may have feature and marketshare parallels to IE6, but it will never be IE6. IE6 was weilded in anger. Chrome is open source, which significantly limits Google's ability to use it in a similar fashion. Not to mention, Google isn't out to kill the web in the way that Microsoft was.