- From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:45:02 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: >> Again, we should not be aiming to restrict the web to only those applications based on a purely FOSS stack. > > That is, in fact, precisely what I and several other important > implementors on this list are aiming for. You can aim for whatever you like. I'm saying W3C should not adopt this as its aim because: 1) It's impossible - the web is whatever users and the companies they patronize decide it is 2) It's counterproductive to try and restrict innovation, by restricting the available technologies to those decided by a some subset of developers > Anything less than that is > insulting to our users that choose to use a purely FOSS stack, which > we recognize as a valid and legitimate choice. Or maybe it's insulting to users to claim that a whole swath of services they enjoy today on the web should not be there ? …Mark > > ~TJ >
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