[Foundation-l] The problem with Flash

[Chad]

[snip]
On Jan 20, 2008 5:22 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
[/snip]

Very true. Only reason we'd need to see it localized was if we adopted
it ourself. As we've been told we're not, I fail to see a reason to invest
the WMF's volunteer's time. Shouldn't we be writing articles rather
than beta-testing someone else's product?

Chad

On Jan 20, 2008 5:22 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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