FYI are already an organisational signatory to: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/sign-on-against-drm-in-html
On 15 May 2013 23:48, Pieter Colpaert <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Daniel +1 - We should take a public stance against DRM in HTML5 (and in > general). > > I think it would be interesting to summarize this in 3 solid arguments + > an alternative in a blog post on okfn.org. If there's a consent, I'm > willing to give a kickstart to such a blog post. > > Kind regards, > > Pieter > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Daniel Dietrich < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > -- Jonathan Gray Director of Policy and Ideas | *@jwyg <https://twitter.com/jwyg>* The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> * Empowering through Open Knowledge okfn.org | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/> | Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> *
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