[FM Discuss] Wordpress stuff

[Seth Woodworth]

I'm not a regular contributor to FM, but I disagree.

One: iTunes is opening it's DRM considerably as of late, and offering higher
quality and non-drm songs.
Two: iTines contains content from many of the open lecture series from MIT
Harvard etc that are all open content and CC licensed.  This material is for
free, and is extensive.  So FM would be in good company.
Three: Doesn't it make sense to try to preach to the people in the iTunes
crowd?  Attempt to be a voice of reason and explain positions to people who
might not otherwise hear them?

All of my arguments assume one can publish with iTunes non-exclusively.  But
I think that distribution with iTunes, Podiobooks (CC audiobooks), or any
organization that will carry FM content.

I feel/think that one of the purposes is to document FLOSS projects to break
down some of these religious disagreements between free and non-free
systems.  Distribution through iTunes would reach a very large audience with
little or no bending of morals or principles.

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:21 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> hi,
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> I agree with you Simon - FM is for FLOSS and if we cross into services
> then these should be free services (but what exactly is the equivalent
> of 'libre' when it comes to services is a tricky issue in itself).
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> Mr Snow, the material you have written looks fantastic. However I think
> we need to leave the iTunes material out of the FM repository. I
> understand you are writing these under commission for Tactical
> Technology Collective - how adamant are they that iTunes store is
> documented? I am sure we can find another ('libre') solution...
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> adam
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> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:36 +0000, Simon Yuill wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I'm just following up on a point in Mr Snow's last mail:
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> > > i have just been looking into adding ones podcast to the itunes store
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> > I wonder is it really appropriate that we should be
> > including tutorials that encourage use of non-FLOSS
> > services such as the iTunes store?
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> > I appreciate FM is taking a 'broad church' approach to
> > encouraging FLOSS usage, but to me something like this is
> > maybe crossing a line that we shouldn't. I am asking
> > partly as it raises the question of how (or if) we are
> > setting our own boundaries for what is appropriate to
> > include?
> >
> > That's not intended as a criticism of Mr Snow and what
> > looks like an excellent tutorial overall, but I am
> > interested to know what people think ....
> >
> > best wishes
> > Si
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