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[4]: How is silverlight worse then flash?
by BluenoseJake on Thu 1st May 2008 11:21
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RE[5]: How is silverlight worse then flash?
by hobgoblin on Thu 1st May 2008 14:35
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RE[4]: How is silverlight worse then flash?
by hobgoblin on Thu 1st May 2008 13:15
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RE[5]: How is silverlight worse then flash?
by lemur2 on Thu 1st May 2008 14:11
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so they are no better then a kernel binary blob for some hardware.
heh, i would not be surprised if videos played by said blobs ended up showing a lesser quality video...
heh, i would not be surprised if videos played by said blobs ended up showing a lesser quality video...
The format has been opened up ... open for implementation by anyone.
Open source players such as swfdec - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swfdec and
gnash - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash will benefit greatly.
IMO it won't take long and Adobe's binary blob won't be appreciably better than open source alternatives such as these.
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Get your facts right.
Here are quotes from from MS:
No code has been contributed to a community under a liberal license. (As Miguel says, "Microsoft will give Novell access to the test suites for Silverlight to ensure that we have a compatible specification.") No IP has been contributed to a community under a liberal license. ("The codecs will be binary codecs, and they will only be licensed for use with Moonlight on a web browser".)