[Sigia-l] The future of WWW...

[Listera]

Dave:

> People believe that OSS is just as capital earning as closed software, but
> that its open nature means that monopolozation is less likely and thus
> opportunities are increased.

Do *you* believe that?
 
> That being said, I think there is another issue here. <sticking head
> out of shell slowly>What if, IF!, Longhorn is all that and it brings
> to market what any OSS couldn't imagine doing in the same timeframe at
> the same level of support and professionalism?

What would that be?

> What if, the web is ready to die as we know it

Are there any signs of it?

> and it is time for a new technology to come along and better it?

Like what? Name one thing in Longhorn that's "new."

> No one is really morning the death of Gopher, eh?

Hey, speak for yourself.:-)

<http://gopher.quux.org:70/>
 
> I mean imagine if every TV maker used different protocols for
> interpretting TV signals? It would be a mess, no?

Yes it would be. So would a single company owning NTSC, PAL or SECAM.
Therein lies the crux of the matter. (Incidentally, there are many more TV
standards than this, but for that's another day.)

> I mean aren't we reaching a point where we just gotta let the better
> app/solution win?

What's "better"?
 
> I just think that we OSS for the front-end has shown me no successes
> to date as a designer trying to solve real world problems compared to
> the closed solutions in my life: IE, Flash, Java, etc.

The latter two (Flash and Java, like PDF, etc) run on many platforms, the
first (IE) locks you into one. Surely you see the difference?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba