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 <daniel.dietr...@okfn.org>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 <augusto.herrm...@gmail.com> > 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 <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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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