Posted by SpaceGirl on 10/10/07 11:31

On Oct 9, 11:09 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2007-10-09, SpaceGirl wrote:
> > Ben C wrote:
> >>> Despite its nostaglic exigency, html/css does seem very much like a
> >>> dead end in the future - especially with the browser-barons' lack of
> >>> concordance.
>
> >> No, this is nonsense, and SpaceGirl's interpretation of history is also
> >> a bit suspect.
>
> > Nah I'm quite aware of the history, Microsoft of course did abuse their
> > position, but OS software didn't really help either.
>
> Can you provide an example of OS software that "didn't help"??

I mean, didn't actually bring anything new to the table. Where has
almost all the desktop innovation been over the last 5 or 6 years? OS
X... which is not open source. MS have steadily made Windows worse,
and most Linux desktops are poor Windows clones. Innovation... please?
The biggest innovation in desktops we're going to see THIS year is OS
X Leopard.

As for browsers... Opera, which is not Open Source, is the only place
we've seen any browser innovation in 5 or 6 years.

So from the point of view of the end user, Open Source has added a big
fat zero *directly* to the experience that they get when they use a
computer, although you could argue FireFox's market penetration
indirectly "encouraged" MS to re-vamp IE.

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