john: Apples systems are all a lot more open than Flash.
Even microsoft (who, let's face it, aren't traditionally open people) opened silverlight pretty extensively. Adobe is the real epitomy of closed-sourceness; a lot more so than Apple are (with their BSD-based OS, WebKit browser, PDF-based graphics system, reliance on standards like vCards and CalDav, and built-in java and OpenGL)
I recently had to take my vista contacts over to my Mac. Oh, wait - the vista .contact file is a new format unsupported anywhere else, and exporting to vCard ruins lots of data. Being based on XML seems to mean open to microsoft, rather than actually using standard schemas.
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KarlW @ Mar 19th 2008 7:25AM
john: Apples systems are all a lot more open than Flash.
Even microsoft (who, let's face it, aren't traditionally open people) opened silverlight pretty extensively. Adobe is the real epitomy of closed-sourceness; a lot more so than Apple are (with their BSD-based OS, WebKit browser, PDF-based graphics system, reliance on standards like vCards and CalDav, and built-in java and OpenGL)
I recently had to take my vista contacts over to my Mac. Oh, wait - the vista .contact file is a new format unsupported anywhere else, and exporting to vCard ruins lots of data. Being based on XML seems to mean open to microsoft, rather than actually using standard schemas.