Ha! Hardly. Many times the Flash player does not even render the same in different browsers on the same machine.

Although it has its flaws, Flash filled a gap that existed when there were few to no alternatives to producing content rich websites. As the web has matured there has become to exist more of a desire to have such dynamic content become standards based, thus supported and developed by the web community as a whole, without the need for additional plug-ins and players implementing proprietary technology.

I liken this to FAX vs e-mail. Online FAX providers aside, for the common user, most of the time its infinitely more convenient to simply scan and e-mail a document than it is to use a FAX machine to transmit the same document. With traditional land lines disappearing, this is becoming even more the case.

We always seem to drag legacy technology into the future and complain about how hard or how much of a burden it is to learn new technologies, which usually provide many benefits over the older technology. As fundamental human nature, people are simply resistant to change and stick with what they know. Look for this battle to drag on for some time to come.

The usual FUD here. Whitelists and blacklists already exist in packages such as Asterisk and aren't remotely difficult to setup and administer. Your VoIP network is only as succeptable to spit as you let it be. I suppose telemarketing calls to regular PSTN numbers don't qualify as "junk" as do unwanted calls to VoIP numbers all of a sudden?