[OT] Semantics

[Richmond Mathewson]

  "Speed and standards."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361444,00.asp

All the 'stuff' that we have been chewing over re Steve Jobs, Apple, Adobe
and, now Internet Explorer 9, come down to "Speed and standards."

The question is not really about Apple's, Adobe's or Microsoft's motivation
(their motivation is to compete with each other and make money);
it is about who defines what constitutes 'speed' and who should define
'standards' and how to force the maximum of people to adopt those
'standards' so that is what they become by /force majeur /even if for no
other reason.

We, as supporters of RunRev ought to be worrying about how to help,
urge, kick RunRev to get their 'standards' adopted by more people;
because if we don't, and Runrev doesn't, we will all wake up one day to
find that we and RunRev have become either 'substandard' or
'nonstandard', at which point we can either adapt or pop along to
the local main road with a "will work for food" notice; neither of
which exactly "thrill my gorilla."

Apparently Runrev's chances on the iPhone and the iPad have just
got trampled on in Steve Jobs' elephantine squishing of Adobe; now
maybe just the time to start pushing the mobile platform capabilities
of RunRev like Billy-Oh so that there is a chance that when/if Apple
caves into pressure with some sort of compromise (that excludes Adobe Flash)
RunRev is one of those who get a backdoor pass to rejoin the party.