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On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:20:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:22 on Friday 03 June 2011, Indi did opine |
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> thusly: |
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> > > > Neither. Adobe is utterly incompetent and apathetic, google is evil |
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> > > > and wants to sell ad space for h3rb41 v14gr4 in your brain. |
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> > > > Flash is a necessary evil for a lot of us, chrome(ium) is not. |
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> > > I think of it more a case of there being no viable alternative to |
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> > > Flash[1] whereas Chrom{e,ium} is just one more browser amongst many. |
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> > > I use Flash myself even though I hate the way it performs. |
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> > > [1] There are flash alternatives, but by and large only support out of |
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> > > date features, so they are not really "viable". |
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> > Agreed. I do wish we'd get something open and reasonably well coded to |
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> > replace flash, but I think perhaps the biggest reason for the success of |
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> > flash is its sneakiness in tracking users and ability to enforce DRM. Big |
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> > Business just loves that sort of thing. |
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> Compare skype. Someone just reverse-engineered critical bits of v1.4, I'll bet |
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> money that Skype's (now MS) response will be to tweak the app so that any |
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> open-source implementation gets no response from Skype infrastructure when |
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> used. Same possibility of sneaky shit going on under the surface. |
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Just about everythng Microsoft touches goes bad. |
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R.I.P Skype. |
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