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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:29:27 -0800 From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Microsoft Again? On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:10:51AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > begin Derek J. Balling quotation: > > > If you want the support, get the bring the users. > > Or ignore vendors who don't want you as a customer. Works for me.<tm> I went to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and there were several inexpensive Linux and QNX "web terminals" being promoted as simple-to-use second Internet boxes for households that already have one main PC. So site operators can add "dumbass thin clients" to the list of platforms unable to support certain plugins. Proprietary plugins don't fly in the long run, just because they're inconvenient even on supported platforms. The sole exception so far has been Macromedia Flash, which succeeded because of all the latte-drinking artists in San Francisco who created content for it because they already knew Macromedia Director. Macromedia's viewable source license for the Flash player, intened to make it easy to port to platforms Macromedia's people don't have time to learn, will probably mean that Flash survives on non-PC Internet appliances too. ===