June 15, 2011
"Way back in 1999 I predicted a significant market for desktop Linux by 2005. (I was targeting better than Mac OS type numbers, in the 10-15% range.) It was clear back then that Linux had found a substantial adoption as a server OS, and it seemed only time before the desktop adoption rivaled at least “the other desktop”. Obviously I was wrong."

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From Focusing on the next Linux client (btw the title of the post is a picture).

TL;DR: we give the tiniest sh*t for the Linux desktop, and it’s because we think it’s irrelevant.

This post wasn’t needed Adobe, we already knew that. Sincerely yours, a Flash 64bits Linux user.

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Filed under: Flash Adobe Linux market desktop we don't care 
June 4, 2010
Apple and HTML5

Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.

But, at the end:

So, that seems the same old dog with a different collar, doesn’t it?

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Filed under: HTML5 Apple lock open standards web flash 
May 19, 2010
"The upcoming release of Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 will enable publishers to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs by outsourcing media distribution to users."

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From Adobe Flash To Eliminate Bandwidth Costs With P2P.

I don’t know how to feel about that. Eliminate Bandwidth Costs is obviously inaccurate (well, we could say plainly wrong), because that outsourcing means moving the cost from them (“the publisher”) to you (“the user”).

Definitely bad news if you’re in the wrong side.

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Filed under: P2P Flash Video WTF outsourcing 
April 23, 2010
"This is two companies arguing about which level of hell they represent. (It’s still hell, guys!)"

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From Open vs. Standard, by Christopher Blizzard.

Seems that I have a snarky part too. Another worth quoting part is: It’s open if I don’t have to ask anyone for permission to use it. Or ship it. Or improve on it.

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Filed under: Apple Adobe Open Standard Blizzard Flash H.264 wars 
January 25, 2010
Firefox 3.6, Theora and the Flash Video Player Killer

I must confess I’m not in the video/audio business, and I don’t know 100% about the differences between Theora and H.264 and its licensing model.

But I do know about GIF and MP3, so it’s easy to choose a side in this topic: go for open source supported and royalty-free technology for the win!

There’s another point. My three years old laptop can hardly play a video in some of the flash players out there, and certainly it’s not able to play most of the HD videos. Flash on Fedora (eh, Linux) sucks and melts my CPU even with small ads.

With HTML5 and in-browser Theora support it’s different. The video in this post plays smooth and using about 30% of my CPU. Yes, it’s the way to go (or you can donate some bucks so I can buy a new laptop, dammit!).

I don’t get the point to buy a Quad Core laptop just to watch some videos on the Internet, do you?

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Filed under: Theora H.264 Video Flash Firefox Firefox 3.6 Future of the web HTML5 Fedora 
December 29, 2009
Why I Avoid Using Closed Source Software

Lemme add: while possible.

--------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ 

 
 WARNING:  Segmentation Faults in these executables
    npviewer.bin :  1 Time(s)
 
 WARNING:  General Protection Faults in these executables
    npviewer.bin :  9 Time(s)
 
 ---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------

This is an extract of the logwatch report that it’s generated every day in my Fedora system (do you read it, don’t you?)

Yes, it’s the flash-plugin 10.0.42.34-release (non-free, from Adobe repos), and yesterday crashed 10 times and I don’t remember I browsed any page with intensive flash stuff on it (that’s very vague, because almost any page in the Internet has Flash on it).

Anyway, it crashes, it sometimes eats all my CPU (and/or the sound it’s choppy), and it piss me off that I can’t see Vimeo stuff on HD (may be it’s my 3 years old laptop), but there’s no replacement right now that doesn’t exclude you from being a normal web citizen.

I think it’s too late for Flash, but we must learn from this story and try doing something so it doesn’t happen again. I bet you’ve seen links to Spotify, haven’t you? What happens when you click on it? Disappointment.

I don’t know what’s the formula to stop this kind of viral closed source adoption that leads to de facto standards that finally avoids you to be free to choose, but I know that Gtalk and XMPP advocacy helped with the Microsoft Messenger issue.

We may need both: a free implementation of the idea, and a cool company to promote it.

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Filed under: Fedora Flash crash Spotify Bad Standards standard free software closed source