Linked by Adam S on Fri 11th Jul 2008 04:37 UTC, submitted by peskypescado
A recent post about Firefox and my general view of corporations and organizations has caused a bit of a stir. It even caught the attention of Asa Dotzler. He said "It's really hard for me to believe that either [Microsoft or Adobe] have the free and open Web at heart when they're actively subverting it with closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight." But are they really subverting it? Where exactly is the line between serving the consumer and subverting the web? I think the W3C should share in this blame.
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I guess it's OK as long as the tools (plugins) required to run those proprietary components remains free AND we still have good enough web standard technologies allowing us to do rich web sites without those proprietary components (e.g. AJAX).
What we want are choices, and good enough open choices. We don't need everything to be open anyway.