Hoi, Where are your arguments ?
We do have storage and bandwidth problems. We have a money problem as in too little of it. When the Internet archive is willing to host our content, they in effect help alleviate our problem by hosting our content and providing bandwidth. Your argument about the copyleft stance of the Internet Archive is beside the point as well. When they provide us with storage and bandwidth, they do not take over from us as an organisation.. What are the positions of Kennisnet and Yahoo on this point, see.. you missed the ball.
When you say "absolutely unacceptable"... again no arguments... you sound like having seen the Lord. Sorry, I was not there with you when you had your moment of inspiration, was he a she, were angels singing ??
And again, core mission, it states that our content is to be Free. So read the core mission statement again, it does not state anywhere that the format needs to be Free.
To summarise, you state your convictions and you do not support them at all by arguments. I am sorry that you express yourself in this way and I hope you also have arguments to make your point.
Thanks, GerardM
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
On 7/20/07, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys@gmail.com > wrote:
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Erik Moeller wrote:
We must achieve the same ease of use in Wikimedia projects. In my opinion, inconveniencing users is the worst possible way to raise awareness of free content & free software. I therefore propose that
- we immediately begin serious discussions with the Internet Archive
about hosting some or all of our video content on their servers;
Hell no! Why should we farm out hosting to other sites? It just makes no sense. We don't have any storage or bandwidth issues on our end, so why give up control and our strong protection of free content? Archive.org does NOT have the same copyleft stance that we do, not by a long shot.
- All uploaded videos should be transcoded to at least Ogg Theora & a
Flash-compatible codec.
Absolutely unacceptable. We cannot use non-free file formats. We will continue to use Ogg Theora and we will NOT use Flash.
- we add video support to MediaWiki that will, as intelligently as
possible, fall back to any of the following methods
- embedded open source Flash player
- Java player
- VLC plugin
- (in the future) <video> support.
Where have you been? We already have fallback methods in place for displaying videos on WMF servers that work for the majority of readers. If we put a bit more effort into improving this system we will have a very robust way of displaying videos to readers that does not violate our core mission. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)
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