[brookst]

HTML5 would not have existed without flash.

Your idea to outlaw imperfect solutions is noble, but misses the fact that mature solutions learn from earlier, imperfect work.

If we’re fining or jailing people for releasing and/or using hacked together code, it either means no progress or rubber-stamp standards bodies that approve everything.

And I feel a little sorry for 13-year-old me, who presumably you would have treated harshly for releasing some BBS software that saw wide adoption when I “should have” invented IPv6 instead.