Pretty sure we are saying the same thing - what part of my comment struck the wrong chord with you?
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
