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Mozilla, please stop promoting nonfree software. It would be better to assist in the creation of a free game engine for the web instead of Unity.
First, build the infrastructure to support amazing things. (Asm.JS, WebGL, WebRTC)
Second, encourage people to spend real money developing for it, however they want to. (Unity 5)
Third, the open source competitors come around. (???)
I'm seeing parallels between Unity and Flash (circa 2000). In a few years, we'll have the "Unity is dead, use arguments popping up all over HN
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js If they cared about the open web, and they cared about open source, they would be helping open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque3D. Instead, for the sake of expedience, we see them promoting proprietary components. It was not too…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7423703
to which I can add that we have in fact helped, and are helping, port open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque. These things do not preclude each other. (Yes, we all have finite time, but helping all such ports is a major priority.)
Also, it is not just that they do not preclude each other - they benefit each other as well. For example, you can see some pull requests from Unity developers to emscripten, those fixes and improvements then get to all the projects using it, many (most?) of which are open source. The same goes for fixing a bug that Unity hits, that bugfix benefits all other projects too.
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js If they cared about the open web, and they cared about open source, they would be helping open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque3D. Instead, for the sake of expedience, we see them promoting proprietary components. It was not too…
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>Also how can you load say models but not textures? All files are just binary data. CORS and the Same Origin Policy.
If you read thought my comment history you'll see I'm not a web developer.
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js If they cared about the open web, and they cared about open source, they would be helping open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque3D. Instead, for the sake of expedience, we see them promoting proprietary components. It was not too…
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js There is no contradiction here, on the contrary (heh!). Mozilla doesn't believe an Open Web precludes proprietary applications. In fact they've strongly argued that the web should be properly standardized so that it's possible for anyone,…
I'm seeing parallels between Unity and Flash (circa 2000). In a few years, we'll have the "Unity is dead, use arguments popping up all over HN