This has to be the first ever Marco post I've read which didn't leave me wanting to toss sharp items at my monitors.
I actually fully agree with him on this. The open web is increasingly being threatened and locked down. We need to oppose that.
I actually fully agree with him on this. The open web is increasingly being threatened and locked down. We need to oppose that.
It's always easy to spout how we need to push forward open standards, but what we've seen instead is developers falling over themselves to develop for Apple and Facebook. The very people who are needed to push forward the open web are the very same people who spend their time and energy expanding the every growing empire of closed ecosystems.
I sense hypocrisy.
On my Arch Linux, I use Chromium with a separate PDF reader and I don't use Flash. I suggest everyone do the same. For all intents and purposes, you will be using Chrome.
> especially how deeply it tries to push Google services.
Can you clarify what you are talking about? You can login with your Google account if you want tab sync etc. If you don't, you don't have to.
But you aren't. You are using Chromium.
> Can you clarify what you are talking about?
Google's AppStore, and their Apps on the new tab page (I forget if they had anything installed by default). Honestly, I don't feel like setting up a fresh install of Chrome to check. But you could answer your own question by doing this.
This isn't really what I've observed. Do you have a source?
The OP was calling for distributed social interactions using open and standardised peer protocols/applications. All for that. Not clear that this precludes proprietary implementations.
Until then, crusts must be earned. Trivia of the week: blackberry handsets support .ogg files. Wonderful.
Why not call out Google then for not having an open source search engine or adsense or maps? Or maybe that's because Google doesn't open source anything that makes them money?
The open web has nothing to do with OS software or hardware. Unless you're typing this comment on a Stallman-approved machine, you're a sanctimonious hypocrite.
Salient quote:
You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of moral relativism. You see, in that sort of a climate, you are not allowed to criticise others-after all, if there is no absolute right and wrong, then what grounds is there for criticism? … Now, this led to a good deal of general frustration, for people are naturally censorious and love nothing better than to criticise others’ shortcomings. And so it was that they seized on hypocrisy and elevated it from a ubiquitous peccadillo into the monarch of all vices. For, you see, even if there is no right and wrong, you can find grounds to criticise another person by contrasting what he has espoused with what he has actually done. In this case, you are not making any judgment whatsoever as to the correctness of his views or the morality of his behaviour-you are merely pointing out that he has said one thing and done another. Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy.
I personally want both and think both are quite tightly linked but it's not hypocrisy to value one and not the other.
We, the developer community should probably focus more time on standards based tools, than Twitter/FB/Google Apis - all we are doing is just help them gain more traction.
There are enough of us to keep a vibrant ecology going, but we'd have to commit to putting our energy there.