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This chapter provides an overview of the industries involved in the standardization battle between IE and Firefox. We first describe the PC industry and the software industry, followed by a case description of the web browser industry.

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© 2008 Huibert de Vries, Henk de Vries and Ilan Oshri

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de Vries, H., de Vries, H., Oshri, I. (2008). Industry Background. In: Standards Battles in Open Source Software. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595095_5

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