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Comment Re:Optional extensions? (Score 5, Insightful) 180

I really like that SPDY insists on SSL secured connections. This is what we should be moving towards and having it forced upon us in the next HTTP revision is a great step. But of course Microsoft tries to be backwards compatible, as they always are.

I say SPDY for modern devices, HTTP 1.1 for the foreseeable future for low powered devices. It still works fine, you know? And by the time HTTP 1.1 is retired, there will be no more devices so underpowered they can't establish a SPDY connection. For the love of god, drop legacy when you get the chance!

Comment Re:*clap* *clap* (Score 4, Insightful) 247

Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray were proprietary, patent- and DRM-laden standards. ... For once, the technically best format (Blu-Ray) won.

I'll just let these two sentences stand next to each other. They're too good. :)

It's not that Sony beat HD DVD which undermines your argument, it's that Blu-ray is a horrible technology, mostly exactly because it's DRM-laden. The blue laser is nice, the DRM and all the crap that goes onto a typical Blu-ray disc is not. What won is simply one of the two evils. Therefore, choosing Blu-ray as an "open" technology to show how good Sony is in using open technologies is just... let's call it a bad example.

Both are very closed, but one is a lot more open than the other (the PS3)

So one sucks less than the other, that doesn't make it a great example for "open".

whereas the post I was responding to was claiming that Sony uses proprietary formats.

Because the PS3 is the only device Sony is selling?

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