Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:15:07PM -0500, J Sisson wrote:And if enough people petition Microsoft, we can get them to release Windows 7 source under the GPL.Reality called...your request to ignore it was denied.Actually, we *could*. The problem is the definition of "enough". I'm sure that if you got 100% of the Windows users in the world to do so, Microsoft top brass would be hard-pressed to avoid acquiescing. Meanwhile, I'm sure that if you got 1% to do so, it would raise some eyebrows at Microsoft, but utterly fail to get MS executives to put a moment's thought into making that kind of licensing change, except perhaps to laugh at it. The problem is figuring out the exact threshold, somewhere between 1% and 100%. In other words, to quote an old off-color joke: "We've already established you're a prostitute, my dear. Now we're just haggling over the price." -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]Better pray for Theora's mass adoption on streaming sites :-)
Google apparently favours HTML-5 as their future direction, rather than
Flash. And where YouTube goes, the rest of the world will surely follow,
at least as far as Video streaming is concerned.
Cheers,
Matthew
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