On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Richard Stallman<r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so > tha= > t > Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will enable people to > direct Amazon referral fees for their purchase to GNOME. > > It is not a good thing for the GNOME Foundation to support Amazon in > this way. Amazon is one of the main perpetrators of DRM > (see http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/orwell-2009-dystopia).
Amazon was also the first significant provider of mainstream commercial music to offer a 100% DRM-free music store, and also the first (as far as I know) to offer a GNU/Linux client (albeit a non-libre client) for their music store. So their record contains significant strengths as well as significant weaknesses- certainly glaring weaknesses, but probably more strengths (from our perspective) than any other purveyor of commercial mainstream culture. This is not to say I'm rushing out to buy a Kindle; I really want one but haven't pulled the trigger exactly because of the DRM. But using Amazon affiliate codes to raise revenue for the Foundation is a world apart from endorsing Kindle's DRM. Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list