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 <[email protected] > >> 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 >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
