If someone is trying to turn this into a moral discussion about the positive value of the so-called "open web" to humanity, then the question of whether the actual codebase is open-source, and runs on every platform is of primary importance.
My original reply was to a part of the article that talked about the "evil" non-open nature of web-technologies that are not humanly readable, textual HTML/CSS/JS. Then someone replied that PNaCl is only supported by a single vendor. Then I said that was a factually incorrect assertion, with the response being that I was engaged in hair splitting.
So then, I suggested that we should examine the rest of the vendors. In the morals based context of this entire subthread, I think it is plainly obvious that Safari and IE/Edge don't have any place here, when it comes to the question of whether PNaCl is a "good" technology, based simply on the question of the proportion of vendors that happen to support it.
If you are instead talking in a purely pragmatic, capitalist sense... then of course all that matters is brute numbers. But then there is no real discussion to be had, because in the cold, hard business world, whoever wins is just whoever wins. A equals A. It's a mere tautology.
My original reply was to a part of the article that talked about the "evil" non-open nature of web-technologies that are not humanly readable, textual HTML/CSS/JS. Then someone replied that PNaCl is only supported by a single vendor. Then I said that was a factually incorrect assertion, with the response being that I was engaged in hair splitting.
So then, I suggested that we should examine the rest of the vendors. In the morals based context of this entire subthread, I think it is plainly obvious that Safari and IE/Edge don't have any place here, when it comes to the question of whether PNaCl is a "good" technology, based simply on the question of the proportion of vendors that happen to support it.
If you are instead talking in a purely pragmatic, capitalist sense... then of course all that matters is brute numbers. But then there is no real discussion to be had, because in the cold, hard business world, whoever wins is just whoever wins. A equals A. It's a mere tautology.