You forget that flash-delivered video and audio was typically DRM encumbered. At least Flash was a virtual-machine that we could have implemented given enough time and effort. > Instead of Flash, we now have to deal with HTML approval of DRM, instead. I fear that we'll always be playing catch-up, never leading again, and that even playing catch-up with a mainstream tech like Flash is beyond us as a community.
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There's nothing "Linux" that makes Android possible, or makes it impossible to port to anything else in theory.Įven virtualisation, we appear to be playing second-fiddle to HyperV and VMWare, and that's something quite techy and core to the OS, and somewhere where we were ahead of the game in terms of concepts coming from virtualised multi-user operating systems of old at one point. About the only thing that really pops into my head is smartphone usage, but that's really the Android eco-system, not Linux directly. but I don't think we have something like that.
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There was a time where playing catch-up was secondary and our networking was superior, our software and deployment processes were superior, etc. But we don't seem to have anything like that. Things like SteamBox and the big projects would snap it up. Imagine if VR or similar worked so-much-better on Linux and was plug-and-play and slightly faster.
We really lack any kind of unique selling point (not that I think anyone should be selling Linux). Systemd et al changed everything on the backend but at the end of the day, the average Linux desktop is basically unchanged in the way it's used by a non-administrative user. The new window manager projects are all dead or dying, we have Linux consoles now (SteamBox), but we appear to be playing catchup in that regard too. And we don't seem to have much in the way of user-visible innovation, either. It's worrying to me that we can't even play catch up any more, to be honest. Hell, nobody ever managed to make Yahoo / AOL / MSN Messenger video work right on any reimplementation, even with decades of effort, for the entire visible lifetime of those protocols.
Instead of Flash, we now have to deal with HTML approval of DRM, instead. Wasn't it a FSF priority for years too?īecause what's to say that the next big thing doesn't just do the same? I find it more worrying that, in all that time, we couldn't make a viable Flash-compatible alternative.
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