Comments on: NFB admits MS Silverlight not ‘ideal’ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284/comment-page-1#comment-953027 Reader's Write Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:14:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284#comment-953027 So let me get this straight: You asked the NFB to provide an open-source application because you didn't want them forcing proprietary stuff down your throats, so they offered to provide an alternative written in Adobe's proprietary Flash format? Brilliant. As far as "proprietary formats" go, at least Silverlight is based on well documented specs like XAML, CLR and JavaScript. That actually seems like the lesser of two evils to me. So let me get this straight: You asked the NFB to provide an open-source application because you didn’t want them forcing proprietary stuff down your throats, so they offered to provide an alternative written in Adobe’s proprietary Flash format?

Brilliant.

As far as “proprietary formats” go, at least Silverlight is based on well documented specs like XAML, CLR and JavaScript. That actually seems like the lesser of two evils to me.

]]> By: Geekwad http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284/comment-page-1#comment-951547 Geekwad Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:47:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284#comment-951547 Oh good, they're going to trade one proprietary pile of junk for another. Oh good, they’re going to trade one proprietary pile of junk for another.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284/comment-page-1#comment-951445 Reader's Write Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:38:45 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18284#comment-951445 good news. Isn't there some sort of flash p2p thing developed as well? good news.

Isn’t there some sort of flash p2p thing developed as well?

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