On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:06:04PM -0400, Aaron Wolf wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Karsten Gerloff > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Looking at the, ahem, "success" of > > technologies such as Flash and Silverlight, they're welcome to > > try. > > > > I must say, I know this is just a turn of phrase, but they are NOT welcome > to try more of this. We need to keep working to have a culture that shames > these attempts even when they are failed attempts.
I fully agree. > > And that said, the idea of TBL endorsing DRM is destructive. Whether it > possibly has any utility in bringing the systems to light where they can be > rejected, if the goal of rejection isn't PUBLIC then it's bad for the > culture. We can have respectable people telling the culture to respect DRM. s/can/can't, right? > This is a cultural battle more than a technological one. Quite so. If Tim Berners-Lee has a strategy here, I hope it's a very good one. But I doubt it. Best regards, Karsten -- Karsten Gerloff [ ] <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org] President | | +49 176 9690 4298 Your donation powers our work! [http://fsfe.org/donate/] Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030).
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