Tim Starling wrote: > > Some people in the community take the view that supporting proprietary > standards, as an option alongside free standards, weakens the ability > of the free standards to compete for mindshare and client support, and > thus that it shouldn't be done. We would have to have that discussion, > and possibly a vote on the issue, before deployment of any software > solution. But the software should come first, at the very least it > will be useful to support alternate free formats such as Dirac, Speex > and FLAC. > I don't know who "Some people in the community" are, but just in case they are anything like myself, who does hold a view not entirely distant from the one you describe...
The one thing I would say is that gettin unencumbered material that was only encumbered by the encoding it was being carried by to formats that are free, is a net plus, no matter if it meant we were also carrying the encumbered format version. Yours in deep amity; Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
