Star Mozilla Warns of Flash, Silverlight 'Agenda'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 17:40 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones While the technologies used on the web have always been mostly free, with non-free technologies delegated to non-essential parts of the net, this has been changing fast, lately. The popularity of YouTube has demonstrated the pervasiveness of Adobe's Flash, to an extent where not having Flash is one of the big downsides to any alternative operating system. And to possibly make matters worse, Microsoft is pushing its proprietary Silverlight technology. The founder of Mozilla Europe, Tristan Nitot, warns for "the dangers of the proprietary web".
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Matt Giacomini
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2005-07-06

There were some solutions involving use of free video/audio solutions in HTML5 but they were blocked by major software/hardware companies


Screw HTML5 if it is going to be dominated by the needs of big companies.

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