Hector, you just point to another major issue with open source software, One day down the road, in two weeks, two months or two years that guy and his buddies who started the project walk out.The project cannot be pushed forward by a distributed community and its contribution based on per hour free time. All the community can do is to fix the bug and keep the framework (or whatever it is, but framework are like blossoms in spring in open source world). When it gets to the points that commercial software provides at no cost what that open source project is about, making it irrelevant, it just dies. The code usually lay there forever. And one day, someone who don't like one feature from it, will fork it and restart the cycle. I spend more time doing tech assessment on open source projects, and background tech check on their author, that I would building a team, crowd funding it, and owning whatever the product is.
Do not get me wrong, tons of open source projects are just awesome. But when it takes to support innovation on the web for the next 10 to 20 years, sorry but I have been laughing at the mere idea ever since I wrote code. The new era starting to emerge is all about peer power, peer to peer, people. But it is not about non profit as we know it today. Charity is dying. So if the entire capitalistic corporate world on which this country was built from the ground up. Both ends of the spectrum are going to have to pick up and adopt paradigms and practices from the other. Non profit will run as commercial enterprise, making products, selling value. They will just not share the coins among themselves at the end of the year. Same for corporation, the ridiculous implementation of corporate social responsibility in business world today is an insult to the word social. Corp and Inc are confusing social as social marketing with civic as interacting as human being, We enter a very exciting era were corporations are obsoletes. Why do you think Mark Zuckerberg spent nearly 40 billion dollars to buy chichat apps you and I can builld with one hand in 3 weeks? Because tomorrow when social networking will be decentralized, people running their own private cloud, and networking peer to peer, whoever own the messaging will be the only social networking industry player to survive, Extend that to banks, healthcare, entertainment... Entrepreneur better make people feel like their elevator pitch is about them, not the 9 figure exit. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Héctor A <neverbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't mention Gnash because in some areas it seems to be behind > Lightspark and it seems development on it stopped years ago. > > 2015年1月19日月曜日、Tom Chiverton<t...@extravision.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','t...@extravision.com');>>さんは書きました: > > > I wish you well, but the idea has been tried a number of times before, > and > > because it wasn't able to use the Adobe Flash hardware abstraction layer > to > > access accelerated / battery optimised decode and display, never mind > video > > DRM, they tended to top out around compatibility with Flash Player v9 or > > v10. > > > > For instance, it's been a top GNU project 'wish list' for years now: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ > > > > Tom > > >
