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Mozilla Warns of Flash, Silverlight 'Agenda'

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 17:40 UTC

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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RE[3]: I would say

by Matt Giacomini on Thu 1st May 2008 04:57 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: I would say"

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2005-07-06

Actionscript is a pain in the ass and the library support could be a lot deeper IMHO.

Before ActionScript3 and Flex came out I would have agreed. But things have changed quite a bit.

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RE[4]: I would say

by modmans2ndcoming on Sat 3rd May 2008 04:07 in reply to "RE[3]: I would say"

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2005-11-09

Sorry, still based on ECMA, Actionscript is Flex's VBscript.

lets get some real languages on the runtime and we can talk.

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