On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am hugely grateful that we have reliable streaming this year, thanks to a lot of volunteer effort. Perhaps we can defer the ideological nitpicking and just share that appreciation. I would be grateful even if it required a Windows-only plugin, which Flash is not.
I've been working from a non-x86 system the past couple of days. Even if I wanted to install the proprietary flash software I couldn't.
The time delayed uploaded files worked pretty well last year, and I was able to watch all the presentations I was interested in. This year I wasn't able to watch a single one.
This isn't merely ideology. But even if it were, ideology doesn't mean "without practical value", ideology can often mean preferring a strategy believe to be practically superior over the long term in preference to some short term expedience. I presume you pursue long-term winning strategies over the best immediate gain constantly through your life and don't consider these decisions to be "ideological", much less nitpicking.
I suppose it is valuable information to know that you have so little respect for my opinions, though I would have preferred to learn of this someplace other than on a public mailing list.