[okfn-discuss] Keeping DRM out of HTML5

Fri Mar 22 17:18:27 UTC 2013

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 <gerloff at 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 <gerloff at 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
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