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Erik Moeller wrote:
I'm not going to argue with you about the technical merits of either approach. There's no point in doing so: I am happy to let the open source ecosystem compete for the most viable solution.
Care to clarify that? If you mean compete *within* the open source ecosystem, then yeah, that's what we're already doing. If you mean having open source compete against proprietary technology, then you've missed the point of the Wikimedia Foundation entirely. We do not use Flash because it is not free, in all senses of the word. It is not gratis, because there is a large tax in the form of the program for making Flash that has to be bought, and it is not libre. How is Flash at all acceptable?
Keep in mind, in every other area, we've always favored truly free formats over proprietary: SVG, Ogg, etc. Why stop now? Why are we supporting Kaltura, which isn't really free beyond a trivial open sourced MediaWiki plugin?