Steve Jobs and Flash...

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  I guess that part is open to debate, but why do you refer to him as a tyrant? Compared to who - Microsoft? Adobe? I referred above to a situation where Adobe acted pretty much in the exact same way as Apple in terms of protecting their proprietary format, the PDF.

  There's a little bit of context needed here which is, throughout the entire history of the web, companies have suppressed open standards for their own interests. Is Steve making a dick move with this whole Flash thing? Maybe, but in a perverse way, at least he's doing it in the interest of open standards, rather than helping entrench a proprietary system as other companies have done.

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  • haha, i doubt its in the interest of open standards. that's a fairy tale.instrmntl
  • If it accelerates development of HTML5, it will have that effect regardlessukit

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