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Brion Vibber wrote:
Ben McIlwain wrote:
Why are we supporting Kaltura, which isn't really free beyond a trivial open sourced MediaWiki plugin?
We're not supporting them at all except insofar as we're encouraging them to take it *COMPLETELY* open-source, INCLUDING server-side, INCLUDING Ogg Theora, INCLUDING improvements to f/oss alternatives such as Gnash, etc. (And yes I know Gnash doesn't solve every problem with Flash.)
Encouraging them to move their tool in the directions we favor is the ONLY thing we're doing.
We won't even consider touching the software itself with a hundred-foot pole until they can support the free environment and formats we require. That's a condition they're well aware of.
It strikes me that there are many *actually* free software projects that are already much closer to being usable for our purposes than Kaltura's product. Why aren't we working with them instead of Kaltura? Why are we messing around with for-profit VC companies that are at cross-purposes with us when there are many aligned non-profit free software projects we could be dealing with?