On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
