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You'd think it would be good to see the problems this will unleash on openness before it's too late and we have to say 2 years down the road, on the next embrac
by gcp 15y ago
You'd think it would be good to see the problems this will unleash on openness before it's too late and we have to say 2 years down the road, on the next embrace-extend move, that Google has a history of this.
Google is using their muscle to push for the adoption of a Google-exclusive technology in browsers that Google's competitors have said they cannot support because it is not truly open. If you can't see that this is embrace, extend & extinguish in action, then you're either naive or your memory is too short.
- magicalist 15y ago> adoption of a Google-exclusive technology in browsers that Google's competitors have said they cannot support because it is not truly open no, they aren't supporting it because they think it is a bad idea, which is a very, very different thing.
- azakai 15y agoThey are different, but both are true here, and they are related. It's not truly open because it is not standardized, nor even proposed to be standardized, and it relies on other non-standard technologies (Pepper). Also, it is incompatible with the open web because it is not hardware-independent, which is another type of openness it lacks.