I assume you don't live in the US or in France or in Germany or in Italy or in half of Europe.

If you were, you'd know that it has begun a few years ago, and for some countries, we're getting really close.

Just look at laquadrature.net 's articles about French HADOPI and LOPPSI laws, that go even further than China in internet control and censorship, in most western countries it's also illegal to use VoIP with a GPRS/EDGE/3G/whatever data connection, too bad if it's the one you use for your home's internet. (how they advertise you to do nowadays)

The internet is in danger, everywhere. Open your eyes and you'll see that we're almost already fucked.

Long term support is something that only exists in OSS ecosystems. No matter how long a company is going to try to support a hardware, the community will support it longer.
It all comes down to "supporting old stuff does not bring new sales, therefore is really bad in the long term" vs "I still use/want to use old stuff, therefore I want it to work, and as long as it fits me, I'll support it."

In the OSS community, the only hardware that's not supported is really the hardware that's not used. Hell they even managed to support closed nvidia hardware without any help from nvidia (see nouveau 2D/3D driver)

Also i'm more confident about OSS drivers being stable than closed source ones. Agreed OSS ones right now are still a bit unfinished, but they really are working fine on r600-700 with classic mesa. In fact I've been playing through all Stalker games recently with decent performances.
Chances are, OSS drivers are good enough for the vast majority of you. Maybe hardcore gamers will bitch, but that's all.

Owl my god.

inb4 : RIAA/MPAA trolling 4chan...
Tits or GTFO.

...take the prime directive into account ?

(because it should.)

Wait, did I missed the part where time machines were something traditional or common or anything like that ?

Seriously, time travel became mainstream and nobody told me ?

No ! You're lying !!!111!1!1!

Everyone knows that Linus is forever !!
Just like Steve Jobs !

Wait, what did you say about cancer again ?

What do you guys think of spotify ?

Honestly, I suscribed for a premium account two weeks ago, and I love it, but even if it's the best way to enjoy legally copyrighted music without spending all the money I have on every single track of the 80 000 ones I listen to, I'm still not sure it's the best way to pay artists back.
I know the more people use and buy premium accounts on spotify, the bigger the share that spotify gives to the "artists" (in reality it's given to the Labels...), but there is no proof that those Labels give a fair amount to the artists.

So, what do you guys think of the Spotify option ?

Of course I know that, my point is that maybe it shouldn't be presented as a missing feature, but rather as an error leading to a(nother) threat to Net Neutrality in the first place.

I'm not unaware of buisness rules, borders, or anything, just saying that when(if) "concent control" will appear, I will not see this as un upgrade of my Internet Experience.

*click*

Yes, I see how with content protection you are not able to offer me videos like this.

how is it open ?

Am I the only one seeing the contradiction here ? Really ?

Sometimes I think that Google just didn't "get it" in the first place when choosing H.264 for youtube.

Maybe it was nothing more than a "Microsoft-ish" tactic to push Google Chrome over Firefox, Opera, Chromium etc.
You know, one of these "if your product isn't used enough, make an every-day used platform/technology incompatible with its competitors."

Promotion by incompatibility is the reason I use Linux and look for open standards and technologies. And I don't think Google's contradictory position is helping those.
You see, as long as you use H.264 in real life, promoting Vorbis-Theora is nothing more than hypocrisy and getting good publicity.

Anyway, there is no way I ever forgive Google anytime soon.

I think the difference here is that it aims mobile phone (or netbooks) market.
AFAIK, vorbis/theora does fine with low and medium quality video (to and including 360p I think, but I'm not sure) but has more problems with file weight and brandwidth usage for high qality videos.

So what I understand is that they promote Vorbis/Theora for "low-end" video streaming and prefear H.264 for "high-end" videos.

I'm really not sure about that, it's just the result of my tiny experimentations with converting h264 content to ogg content and streaming it with html5 for my own private use. Feel free to correct me if you have a more solid experience in that field.

(and yes., as a Chromium user I hate Google for shipping their html5 videos in H.264 and use TinyOgg links every time I can.)

mod parent "answers the GP question". Oh wait, just mod him "Insightful", then...

Maybe the fact that 4x more product from the same ammount of raw material (in your example) could recude production cost per product unit, increase margin and make a step ahead from competitors ?