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> I don't recall either gaining any traction until they were better in some way, either for developers or implementors. No, when they got traction was before t
by whopa 17y ago
> I don't recall either gaining any traction until they were better in some way, either for developers or implementors.
No, when they got traction was before they were better, but after they were good enough, which means you could run your business on cheap Intel/AMD hardware.
- tvon 17y agoAh, but that means they were better in some way relevant to business needs, and good enough elsewhere. Theora is better in terms of cost, but that apparently isn't enough of an advantage to counter the technical shortcomings.
- whopa 17y agoNo, they were not better than the closed source alternatives for most businesses. They were cheaper. Cheaper trumps better often. Cheaper drove adoption.
- tvon 17y agoI'm defining "cheaper" as one of many factors that go into deciding if one thing is better than another, I'm not speaking purely from a technical/feature standpoint.