Macromedia: More FUD About SVG

Robin Berjon writes "Macromedia recently announced that its latest version of Flash Lite (a limited Flash for mobile devices) was to support SVG Tiny 1.1, and support it fully (though no one has yet been able to verify that assertion). For a moment, the Web community wondered if they might be playing nice at last, after yielding to massive pressure from the mobile market to support W3C and 3GPP standards, or if they simply meant to use SVG as a trojan to get Flash into mobile devices. An article freshly published on Macromedia's web site clearly makes the case that they're after the latter, speading as much FUD as possible along the way. Thankfully, Antoine Quint decided to respond in a brief O'Reilly Net article in which he debunks Macromedia's marketing lies one by one, and expands on the wondrous features of SVG Tiny 1.1 and the shortly upcoming SVG Tiny 1.2 that make people drool before their mobile phones. "

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Re:Linux is not an open standard

[Anonymous Coward]

What part of "open" did you not get?

English creates compound expressions; "open standard" is like "iron wall" where open is not a modifier to "standard" (an adjunct in lunguistic terms), but a word which changes the entire noun (compliment in linguistics terms); in fact "open standard" is, linguistically, a single noun using two words.

So, yeah, flash may be a "standard", but is it an "open standard"?

(Yes, I know, teaching basic linguistics to the typical Slashdot poster is an exercise in futility),