Re:Slack Platform Launch
by sly010 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:54AM
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Actually, many features of the modern web (DOM, XmlHttpRequest, box-sizing: border-box) were implemented by IE first.
Unfortunately it's not in the best interest of anyone capable of engineering open/distributed platforms to actually do so. Why would they? It's way easier and more profitable to create something on your own terms, something you can control. I would risk that it's better for the customer.
People are flocking from WordPress to SquareSpace, from self hosted SMTP servers to Google, from private hosting to cloud hosting.
Is this a good thing in the long term? I don't think so either, but doing it any other way would be heroism and we are short on heroes.
Unfortunately it's not in the best interest of anyone capable of engineering open/distributed platforms to actually do so. Why would they? It's way easier and more profitable to create something on your own terms, something you can control. I would risk that it's better for the customer.
People are flocking from WordPress to SquareSpace, from self hosted SMTP servers to Google, from private hosting to cloud hosting.
Is this a good thing in the long term? I don't think so either, but doing it any other way would be heroism and we are short on heroes.