[Foundation-l] The problem with Flash

[geni]

On 20/01/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> You argue as a developer; for a teacher it is irrelevant that something
> could have been build in another way. They need educational material, any
> material. The cost of replacing material is typically not an option. The
> quality of the available educational material is often lacking or missing to
> such an extend that it drives some of the more caring teachers into despair.

VLC media player is free and other ogg tools are free. Flash tends not
to be beyond a certain point


> I agree with you that we should not subsume the world, not all their base
> are ours. What we should do is build the best content that we can. It should
> be free. What we should do is build the best software that we can. It should
> be free. What we should do is promote the use of our platform, because it is
> free. While we are at it, we should be friendly and inviting to all the
> people who want to use our platform,  who are willing to build extensions on
> top of our platform. We should be proud of the fact when an organisation
> like  Kaltura chooses our platform to extend.

Lots of people have built stuff on mediawiki. Problem is people are
doing more then being proud in this case.


> We need people to help with localisation.

A US based startup is going to care about that why? we've already
localised for most of the languages significant money is made in


-- 
geni