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It's the web, not the internet. And the web is not the most free and open platform the world has ever known, it is a comittee-designed disaster whose goals are
by revelation 12y ago
It's the web, not the internet. And the web is not the most free and open platform the world has ever known, it is a comittee-designed disaster whose goals are regularly overruled by the interests of big companies.
I get it, Mozilla is doing this game native stuff now. Why not keep it at that? Baby steps.
- SwellJoe 12y agoName a more free and open platform than the web. You can choose from any point in history.
- revelation 12y agoWell, the internet. That was easy :)
- SwellJoe 12y agoAnd, how would the average person make use of the Internet? Shall they setup a gopher server? SMTP...that's a good one for the average person, right? I mean, who doesn't understand how DKIM works and have the tools needed to use it? The web is pervasive, secure-able by average users (and becoming moreso with Let's Encrypt), accessible in ways that no other Internet protocol is or ever has been, allows creation and participation by anyone of almost any technical ability or resources, it can be used anonymously, and, it has very low barriers to entry even if you do want to run your own site/server...much lower than any other Internet protocol. I cannot think of a single piece of the Internet that is more open and free, for more people, than the web.
- adrusi 12y agoGNU/Linux. A ton of platforms are more open than the web more that EME is part of the spec. It means that a full implementation of the web has to contain non-free components.
- SwellJoe 12y agoOn the EME front we are agreed.
- CmonDev 12y agoNative mobile: it is so open it lets me a real choice of a programming language I like. Unlike "open" web that forces me to script or transpile.