Re: [LAD] Open Source to be or not to be?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote: [...] [...] I don't know what *this* particular thing is all about, but generally speaking, the main point of running stuff in the browser is that the exact same build works on any operating system, any CPU and (in a perfect world) any non-ancient standards compliant browser. It's a platform where an easy-to-optimize subset of JavaScript is your target CPU architecture, and the browser APIs serve as your interface to the hardware and the outside world. It's potentially relevant to pretty much anything people actually want to use on a computer or similar device... As to Google and all that, it's no different from distributing binaries for any other platform. These binaries just happen to run on most of them out of the box, requiring no extra VMs, guest OSes, emulators or anything. If you don't like any random company making money off of it, you use a license that doesn't allow that. If you have nightmares about piracy, you're still free to fuck your paying customers over with DRM that the freeloaders will be happily unaware of. Nothing new there. You just reach many more users with less effort. I don't see any (new) problems here, really. But, perspectives... I develop games and stuff - not embedded realtime applic... Actually, I do that too. :-) -- //David Olofson - Consultant, Developer, Artist, Open Source Advocate .--- Games, examples, libraries, scripting, sound, music, graphics ---. | http://consulting.olofson.net http://olofsonarcade.com | '---------------------------------------------------------------------'