Pretty sure we are saying the same thing - what part of my comment struck the wrong chord with you?
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro@gmail.com
wrote:
Brian wrote:
I hold the same sort of pragmatic view. In the absence of freely licensed content encoded in a free format we should accept free content in any format. I think it would take a revolution within the Foundation staff
and
the most vocal parts of the community (note that I did not say majority), though.
I think this is the exact opposite of what I wished to convey.
I do not hold we should accept non-free content. I don't hold that view. Period.
But if there is content that is *only* encumbered by the encoding, we should embrace and liberate it from those bonds.
That is all.
It seems like a lot less work to solve the recoding problem, and anyway, there is a lot of content that has yet to be produced to worry about. Sticking to the ideals no matter what will help more of that free content in free formats be produced in the future when there are more people around to do the creating.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
cimonavaro@gmail.com
wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Some people in the community take the view that supporting proprietary standards, as an option alongside free standards, weakens the ability of the free standards to compete for mindshare and client support, and thus that it shouldn't be done. We would have to have that discussion, and possibly a vote on the issue, before deployment of any software solution. But the software should come first, at the very least it will be useful to support alternate free formats such as Dirac, Speex and FLAC.
I don't know who "Some people in the community" are, but just in case they are anything like myself, who does hold a view not entirely distant from the one you describe...
The one thing I would say is that gettin unencumbered material that was only encumbered by the encoding it was being carried by to formats that are free, is a net plus, no matter if it meant we were also carrying the encumbered format version.
Yours in deep amity;
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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