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Never. The web was built on open standards, if we let somebody put a toll booth we're screwed.
by Kilimanjaro 18y ago
Never. The web was built on open standards, if we let somebody put a toll booth we're screwed.
- viggity 18y agowhat toll booth? Silverlight's implementation is open enough that the Mono project was able to clone it with moonlight. You can serve it from any server, too, not just IIS. In fact my buddy is serving it off of Apache.
- Kaizyn 18y agoI think you need to go back and look up the definition of 'open standard'. Someone figuring out how to reverse engineer one company's product implementation does not make that either 'open' or a 'standard'. What's needed is a written specification that is not subject to the whims of any single company and that anyone who wants to can build an implementation of.