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Just like how some people wanted Betamax. Politics drives adoption; not technical superiority.
by gjsman-1000 1y ago
Just like how some people wanted Betamax. Politics drives adoption; not technical superiority.
- greenavocado 1y agoThankfully, unlike people and physical hardware, software and algorithms can lie in wait in perpetuity until they are resurrected when the political winds finally change course or favorable conditions for their spread emerge.
- throw_m239339 1y ago> Thankfully, unlike people and physical hardware, software and algorithms can lie in wait in perpetuity until they are resurrected when the political winds finally change course or favorable conditions for their spread emerge. XHTML 2 is waiting on that one... Oh well...
- izacus 1y ago"People" here are a tiny minority of techies that have emotional connection to the library they built and a group of OSSers which will take anything that bashes Google as a gospel. Everyone else... is fine with JPEG. And occasionally shares HEIC pictures from their iPhones.