[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's partnership with Kaltuna and l...

Fri Jan 18 00:32:18 UTC 2008

Rather than attack the messenger, let's look at what is really happening  
here. It look like Wikipedia/Wikimedia is being used to promote a start-up.  If 
that is the case, it would be a slippery slope indeed, and certainly not what  
a project devoted to free culture is all about. 

Perhaps it would have been better to wait until they had released the free  
software before releasing this announcement. What more, I am looking at one of  
their sample videos now: 
_http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Image:Darfur-Genocide.jpg_ 
(http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Image:Darfur-Genocide.jpg) 

I am not sure if this is their free software, but I am pretty sure that  
neither the images nor the music are free content. I had always thought of free  
culture as a comprehensive package. This simply isn't it.

Danny

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