Dear Herrmann, I think the OKFN should publicly reject DRM in general and as a whole. HTML5 is just one aspect of this battle.
But thats just my humble opinion, interested to hear what other think. All best Daniel On 15 May 2013, at 23:08, Augusto Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Since the WWW 2013 conference is happening this week, and this issue is in > discussion there, I though this an opportune moment to revisit the topic. > > Do you guys think the OKFn should publicly reject DRM as a whole, or add to > the campaign against it in HTML5, as the FSF and EFF have been doing? Even a > blog post discussing why this is bad for open knowledge could be useful at > this moment. > > Regards, > Augusto Herrmann > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > yes, sorry about my typo. We're clear. Public endorsements of negative things > cause more harm than any potential upside of luring your enemies into your > camp or whatever. > > All political positions matter in terms of how they inspire others, not just > for the technical details. > > -- > Aaron Wolf > wolftune.com > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Karsten Gerloff <[email protected]> > wrote: > 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). > > > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
