Okay I was starting this post because Joe Porter had made a tweet about people using flash for video and not using youTube of vimeo. He deleted the tweet almost instantly but being Hootsuite doesn’t remove deleted tweets I still saw it and it sits there. Here is the original tweet :)
jpapapnp - When will websites stop using flash for video? I can’t view it on my phone. Use YouTube or vimeo to embed it please!
We then had a few more tweets back and forth that I will also get into but will start there.
Okay, so talking with @IndianaBlueJay about how much Linux sucks to install, which I agree but for slightly differing resaons. So here is my counter points. :)
On the driver issue, the economic issue is that the % of people that use linux total isn’t enough to justify the costs. The number of distributions doesn’t really matter because the driver “should” would with any distro using a standard kernal (though again this doesn’t mean they are up to date but any mainstream distro will be.) Now it may not be packaged nicely but pretty much for any Red Hat or Debian will have a something setup for them, or using other tools that can convert them.
Part of the prob is that if these vendors were more open themselves then they could use each other to reduce the development costs or even open it up for others to write them from the community. They are so worried about their “secrets” that they won’t though. If they would just accept that 99% of what they do isn’t special or even actually original it would help but they don’t like to believe that everyone else can figure out the obvious. (more…)