[UPHPU] Theory of the DOM

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Hi, Jacob,

Jacob Wright wrote:
>>
>> Well, the topic sounds great but these videos are unplayable on Linux -
>> now you see why proprietary Flash is bad for the web.
>
>
> Haha, you could make the same argument against Open Source.  "See, it
> doesn't work on Linux.  Without the driving commercial force of consumers
> demanding products, Flash and other popular formats aren't supported as
> well." .
How is that an argument against open source? Is the "driving commercial 
force of consumers demanding products" that made apache the most popular 
web server on the internet? Even when applied to commercial products, 
it's not the "driving commercial force of consumers demanding products" 
that made flash popular either. It's simply the fact that flash provided 
something that wasn't available before. So, as i see it, the only 
benefit of commercial product is a practical one: I need a solution, 
it's not available for free, and it's worth it for me to pay for it. Not 
quite an argument against open source. By the way, i don't agree with 
the statement: "flash is bad for the web" either.
>
> I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I see the benefit in open source
> AND in commercially driven software.  I use high quality software of both
> types and have seen really poor software of both types.
>
> Jacob
>
Alvaro