Bookmarked for consummation. Thanks for the useful link lembas.
Best Regards
That's a great book. Here's more good stuff on hackers by Biella Coleman
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/the-anthropology-of-hackers/63308/
El 14/05/13 00:02, matt.i...@gmail.com escribió:
I suppose I need to get better at figuring that out.
It is not an easy task. I try to find out the person's motivations and
former setbacks. I look for problems they have had in the past and try
to relate those to freedom as the root cause. It
El 11/05/13 13:31, matt.i...@gmail.com escribió:
The reason I say that users typically choose convenience over freedom is that
when I try to make
the argument for software freedom most people will shrug their shoulders
and say,I don't care, it does what I want.
When someone shrugs their
Apparently, you never heard of the hacker's hacker Richard Greenblatt.
According to Steven Levy's book HACKERS HEROES OF THE COMPUTER REVOLTION,
Greenblatt was a single-minded, unkempt, prolific, and cannonical MIT hacker
who went into night phase so often that he zorched his academic
I suppose I need to get better at figuring that out.
as far as I read the discussion is not over. fsf is not the only ones going
against this EFF and creative commons and others are also against it. please
see https://www.defectivebydesign.org/stepping-it-up-against-the-hollyweb to
see how you can help.
This feels a bit hopeless in some respects. By all means we should push on
but when you've got such big companies involved it seems like it won't play
out in the favour of free software. The problem I see is that if this goes
through it will only make it easier for users of all systems to
Not to be a dick or anything, but these FSF campaigns remind me of hippies
protesting the Vietnam war. People complain and wave banners and try to get
the word out, but the people pulling the strings do what they want anyways.
It would have been sad if there would have been no people waving
El 11/05/13 01:31, matt.i...@gmail.com escribió:
Usually convenience wins out in that battle.
I agree with you on the other points. But I don't think that most people
value convenience over freedom. They value short-term over long-term
benefits. Freedom is convenient. So that is not the issue.
El 10/05/13 18:18, tegskywal...@hotmail.com escribió:
Not to be a dick or anything, but these FSF campaigns remind me of
hippies protesting the Vietnam war. People complain and wave banners
and try to get the word out, but the people pulling the strings do
what they want anyways.
So you think
When will they finally learn that DRM won't stop copying (Or piracy, if you
prefer)? No matter what they do, as long as the video is played back on your
screen, you can get a copy.
The reality is that content publishers that stream video over the internet
didn't like the existing HTML5 video spec that linked to a static MP4 or WebM
file and had no way of stopping you from directly downloading and giving to
your friend and sharing over BitTorrent. Then they would piss
Thank you, Magic Banana. I couldn't have said it better myself.
The reason I say that users typically choose convenience over freedom is that
when I try to make the argument for software freedom most people will shrug
their shoulders and say,I don't care, it does what I want.
This really stirs up a conflict in me. One of the examples of successful
DRM-free content was the Louis CK concert Live at the Beacon Theatre. It
was offered on his site to stream and he still made over a million dollars
from fans who wanted to support him. He does have the benefit of an
About the Hippie comment, maybe, If Mr.Stallman got a decent haircut and a
clean shave, Perhaps some one would taken him more seriously...I will
support trisquel, but not FSE...unless their hippie leader changes to a
more professional look.
What is a professional look? Is it a hoodie like
About the Hippie comment, maybe, If Mr.Stallman got a decent haircut and a
clean shave, Perhaps some one would taken him more seriously...I will support
trisquel, but not FSE...unless their hippie leader changes to a more
professional look.
Haha, so silly! So shallow... More hippies, less
+1
Rms is has his own style and that's good! His eccentric appearance makes him
more convincing.
I think almost everyone of us (except rms) makes little concessions on things
which aren't good, but acceptable (think of the bios).
DRM is bad, but it has many different levels.
I personally don't refuse to watch or even buy a dvd although it might be
encrypted. It takes away some freedom,
On 12/05/13 01:29, t3g wrote:
I have no technical backing for this, but what if video on the server
was encrypted with a public GnuPG key and when it was streamed to
your web browser, a private key (for which you bought) unlocked it?
Of course if we went down the private key route, it doesn't
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583619-93
I signed the petition on the defectivebydesign page, but it seems like the
W3C went ahead to add DRM to the HTML5 spec. It wasn't just the big media
companies that support it and both Google and Microsoft helped create the
technology.
Not to
Its not just FSF campaigns that get overthrown by those with power and
influence who can therefore arrange to get what they want.
This is just one more step in the end game, which is to turn the Internet
into cable TV where every viewpoint you see will be carefully orchestrated. I
will
The big influence here is Google, which has shown their dual nature.
When it creates open source technology it is usually for their own personal
benefit like Chromium for their proprietary Chrome and WebM to avoid
licensing H264 on YouTube. They still include a H264 decoder with Chrome, so
You are SOO preaching to the choir.
Google pretty much told their whole story when they purchased Doubleclick.
A blog post by the W3C CEO:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi.html?utm_source=dlvr.itutm_medium=statusnet
If you have anything really worthwhile to post, please do! I posted two
comments, but unfortunately one of them was rejected.
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