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Flash and Silverlight follow what I said. They were ubiquitous until the costs, being a bloated platform that couldn’t be ported to smartphones, caused the industry to shift to an open model.

And messaging is a very old use of the Internet. IRC was created in 1988; Discord shouldn’t be a thing based on what you’ve said.

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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Flash and Silverlight follow what I said. They were ubiquitous until the costs, being a bloated platform that couldn’t be ported to smartphones, caused the industry to shift to an open model.

I feel like we’re trying to find something to disagree about now…?

And messaging is a very old use of the Internet. IRC was created in 1988; Discord shouldn’t be a thing based on what you’ve said.

Discord does substantially more than IRC can do.

It’s wild to me that “people eventually move to the free thing, once it is feature complete” is a controversial take.

Yes, it can take multiple lifetimes. Yes, there’s plenty of examples where the closed thing persists long after an informed public would have switched.

But the shift to an open public standard eventually happens.

Nobody keeps a monopoly forever.

Monopolies based on restrictive agreements and secret code are unnatural, and they require constant upkeep. They eventually succumb.

In some cases, the standard even persists, but as an open one. Microsoft has figured this out, and now strategically open sources things they know they cannot keep alive, otherwise.

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