somebody wrote:

> new would be adopted. Maybe if makers of non-proprietary standards were not
> so stuck up and conservative, they could anticipate or even shape new
> trends. Why don't we have a practical non-proprietary 2D vector, 3D,
> mathamatical expression, printable document, ...etc standards? The
> bureacracy of non-proprietary standards failed to deliver what the users
> wanted, but instead fell in love with impractical but academic standards
> following the one bloated solution for every problem mantra. Enter vendors
> of proprietary software to fill the void.

What I'd love to see is a non-proprietary standard for rich, interactive 
web applications, like flash, that had a full-featured authoring package 
backing them. If you make it easy for content creators to create content 
in your format, then you'll have content in that format.

-- 
~Mike

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