[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[Andrew Gray]

On 21/07/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> > If the user experience with those initial videos is good, I really can
> > see no convincing reason why we would want to take the load of scaling
> > up to terabytes of video content on our own. That seems to be a
> > classic case of "not invented here" syndrome - the Archive is
> > increasingly acting as a kind of non-profit hosting service, and if
> > they can serve our needs in the particular area of video, for free, it
> > seems irresponsible to ask our readers for donations instead, if
> > there's no real added value.
>
> Videos over our size limit tend not to be encyclopedic.

We do have, you know, these other projects that don't involve writing
encyclopedias.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk