On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
Let me think. I'm using open source (Linux) since many years now. Everything I needed was supported and maintained during all the years. If a tool isn't maintained anymore then there's a fork or a usually better alternative which is maintained.
Closed source? Windows? Windows 98? Windows NT? Windows XP in the near future? Flash for x86_64? Several anti-virus software for x86_64? Zattoo for x86_64? Everything is unsupported or stopped getting supported. Flash for x86_64 was supported only for a short while (about 1 or 2 years?) anyway.
kde1,2,3 aren't maintained anymore this saying windows nt, 98, xp is just about the same. kde4 is very similar in how vista has gone into 7. don't confused unsupported with we released a new version and aren't supporting the previous. open source actually supports it's old versions a lot less in most cases. I only know 2 projects with really long term support: postgres (5 years now) and the kernel (only certain versions). wtf is zattoo (don't answer I don't care). reason AV's don't have 64-bit support is windows is their only serious market and windows hasn't had serious 64-bit support.
So what is getting better and longer supported? Open source or closed source?
"... we're never used as a testbed ..."
Somehow it sounds as if you were from Adobe.
don't take this out of context. I was referring to kde 4.0 where all the distro's decided to roll it out when kde explicitly said 'this is a developer release only'.
it depends... I doubt many/any companies will do a full switch without at least 50% market share. Which IE still holds, (flash has something like 99% market share). Certainly it's not going away on youtube.
I doubt that. Why has Flash a market share like 99%? Only because portals like Youtube are using this and everyone wants to watch their videos. As soon as Youtube and other video portals switch to HTML5 Flash's market share will rapidly decrease.
right because that's the only flash site people use? I doubt hulu is going to switch (and it never worked on 64-bit flash maybe that's why adobe is (according to them) overhauling 64-bit flash), pandora could have been implemented in js when it came out, they chose flash. I believe flash had that market share when youtube was in its infancy and maybe even earlier.
I doubt that it will take too long until IE will adopt webm. And don't overvalue IE. IE isn't as important as it was some years ago.
yes it's becoming less important, and their's certainly a push to kill IE6. I don't think that's going to matter to what I said though. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com