On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com
Brian wrote:
Pretty sure we are saying the same thing - what
part of my comment struck
the wrong chord with you?
I think it is the " we should accept free content in any
format."
bit. ;-)
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanen <
cimonavaro(a)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(a)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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> foundation-l mailing list
>>> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Unsubscribe:
>>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
>
>
>
>
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: