\r\nGet ready for Silverlight and Flash to turn the web into an annoying series of downloads.\r\nBei…

Mozilla folks have stated a lot of strange things. But they’re still an important part of our total digital ecology, so Adobe tries to build bridges. My tip: Ignore their abstract characterizations, and focus on what specific evidence they bring to bear. (I suspect they’re rallying their base with such red meat, but do hope they do better.)

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Adobe has been an asset to us all so far. I just hope that your business model doesn’t change. This worries me:

John Lilly, chief executive of the open-source Web browser firm Mozilla, says both Adobe and Microsoft are “aiming to create a tax and a moat around the Web. These technologies raise barriers to innovation, because developers are forced to go through closed systems and pay for it.”

Source: Forbes

No, let’s think of it this way, there’s a cross-galactic canteen with many species of aliens happily carousing, and then…..

(It may be more useful to think of the current trends as everyone now acknowledging that rich-media interactivity is useful, with the big challenge being achieving runtime support on the audience’s choice of devices.)

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