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i'm over vc's. in case noone noticed there's an impedance mismatch between them and most of our industry. Len Bullard wrote: > Aha... the key phrase: > > "... an application builder trying to deliver advanced features to a wide > audience using the web" - Rick Marshall > it will happen, it's just much too much time and money are required at the moment to do what should be simple. it took me 10 years to get a terminal based user interface that i was happy with. i've now spent 15 on the browser and i think it will be at least another 5 before i'm comfortable (i won't live long enough to be happy) with it. > When simple just isn't what the audience wants and what you offer isn't > powerful enough: why X3D and 3D graphics ARE hard. :-) > > Some gamers like Raph Koster are coming along now to claim the real-time 3D > space as laCosaNostraDeSLProCommunity. But the fact is, the gamers have had > zero to do with 3D On The Web. They build closed systems. Why? They need > speed. Those aren't pages. But the web 3D builders who did build the > community sites got around that and still worked inside 3D plugins for web > pages. What did they get? Lowered performance and less reliability. > > Why? HTML and the Browser Wars. Too much stuff, too many notes, too many > moving parts and few guarantees that when you deliver the very expensive > content it will actually work. > > Understand our problem? To bend to your rules, we have to commit commercial > suicide while you jabber and Raph the Kos, Clay the Shirk, Rosey Phil laugh. > > Self-preservation out competes consensus. You want a VC to pay attention, > you have to have a business plan that doesn't include technological suicide > as the exit strategy. > > len > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > > >
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