Seeing some of the issues that have come up in the past dealing with the advent of new technologies and the angry and often misguided attempts of large companies to seemingly discourage the more adventurous nature of the garage tinkerer, will MS play fair with the existing open source coding, or will they try to reinvent the wheel?
The MT community has become remarkably well-established worldwide, and has made amazing progress on the subject, and while widescale implementation and availability would be the greatest achievement we could hope for, I would hate to see such advancements be the end of such groups that come together for the sake of forwarding a technology and elevating it to some position between science and art.
But large companies like Apple and Microsoft see a profitable feature they can toss haphazardly into their next-generation products and as such will seek to gain as much of the market as possible, which often includes trampling communities like ours.
I’m just not going to be happy when they start putting ridiculous criteria and requirements on the implementation with only certain camera models and drivers being “touch-compatible”, or the code being part of some “Windows 7- ULTIMATE-TOUCH-SCREEN EDITION”
*sigh* ok, rant over.
… thanks for the heads up Daniel D…
