Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:37:53 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HAL must die! Message-ID: <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103061251530.95312@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <il2qar$ka1$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110307162153.0463fa73@atmarama.net> <AANLkTikrA3U9HDMQ%2BFekZzhOuM9q53k7jr3yvy9MLbeP@mail.gmail.com> <20110307170014.GB65289@guilt.hydra> <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000 Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> articulated: > On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > >> Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum > >> discussion. > >> > >> "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." :-/ > >> > > "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." > > > > (full quote) > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk > > > > Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of > > Flash now? Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant. > > > Yay! > > Unfortunately that dream may never be satisfied while stupid > corporate media giants have a desire to keep things closed up. And > now we have #%$^%& silverlight to deal with- open source cooperation > my ass! Just got v2 running and now everything requires v3.0... > > That may not affect too much in business, but any corp that has ties > with M$ is pushed to use it., meaning desktop users are left without > entertainment. My wife can't watch some tv sites because of that now- > after finally! getting flash working and watching catch up tv and the > like to come a cropper again with a new format... :( > > If only people would stick to open standards... The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. "Andrew S. Tanenbaum" Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market share with everyone else dividing up the remainder. If you are on a Microsoft platform you use their products. The same applies to other platforms and their utilities. Corporate media, giants or otherwise, are in business to make money. They obviously are going to focus on the largest possible paying audience. Simple business 101. Now, as far as HAL goes, the fragmented open-source community cannot even begin to agree on its replacement. Every distro is busy trying to reinvent the wheel. Here you want the majority of users to be dictated to by a minority of users who cannot even agree on a common platform that is uniformly used throughout all the non-Microsoft community. That reasoning is totally irrational. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully. Russian Proverb
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