Subject: Re: [mmox] mmox Digest, Vol 2, Issue 61

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:51:25 GMT

>That is inaccurate --- nobody is claiming such a goal.  Indeed the word "* universal*" has not appeared as a goal at all except from yourself, which makes it look remarkably like a straw man.

>Instead, there are several people (myself included) explaining that *generic * browsers/viewers are *inevitable*, and they are not in our power to disallow.  

This is sophistry, Morgaine, and you need to be called on it. First, the sleight of hand substituting "generic" for the word "universal," then a further 3-card Monte shuffle claiming that because such devices are "inevitable" then "we have to" do what you say and make a universal browser. This is like the "inevitability" of communism due to "world-historical forces" of the Marxist. 

You'd certainly reject any notion that said "The advent of the one-company-manufactured PC is inevitable and it will be ubiquitous so let's not have options and choices because they are futile". You don't have a PC with Microsoft Windows on your desk now, do you, Morgaine? So don't inflict anything different on the future of virtual worlds. Market forces will determine what browser/worlds/interops are chosen (unless of course you succeed in engineering massive state intervention!). And it might be one browser/world/protocols wins, but others will compete, and that's fine. 

>In addition to the above, please be aware that interop is easily achieved between systems adhering to both approaches, for the following reason

And here again, using singularity-type thinking we get a forced "logic" -- follow the first flawed logic and accept something as "inevitable" therefore making it a predetermined given and then follow along to make it singular.

Prokofy Neva
Chair, Society for the Promotion of Pluralarity

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