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 <wolft...@gmail.com> 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 <gerl...@fsfeurope.org>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 < >> gerl...@fsfeurope.org>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 [ ] <gerl...@fsfeurope.org> >> 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 > okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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