[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation's partnership with Kaltuna and loss of freedom

Sat Jan 19 05:07:03 UTC 2008

Andrew Gray writes:

>  It certainly isn't an announcement that Evil Baby-Eating Adobe Flash
> will be put on Wikipedia tomorrow, and an awful lot of this seems to
> be a violent storm in a teacup incited by, at best, a rather
> impressive leap of logic.

That's perhaps a little harsher than I'd put it, but not by much.

> Me, I find it hard to care either way. I don't see it being up and
> running and clean and robust any time soon;

I agree.

> I don't see an
> implementation for us in the near or medium term;

I think that's highly probable.

> I am still not sold
> at all that we even *need* editable collaborative video as part of the
> toolbox for our projects.

I tend to favor video editing for the same reason I favor giving my  
daughter, who's a fine reader and a decent coder, a video cam.  There  
are things she can do with a cam that she can't do with prose.

> But why the screaming? Baffling.

Obviously, it's because either (a) Wikimedia Foundation has been taken  
over by the Devil, or (b) having cut ties with True Believers, the  
Foundation has Lost Its Way.

What we definitely know is that (c) (the Foundation is engaging in an  
experimental collaboration that may go nowhere, but seemed worth  
trying)  is totally impossible, because (c) would require us to Assume  
Good Faith.

--Mike