[pp.int.general] free software video streaming

Antonio Garcia ningunotro at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 15 21:57:35 CET 2013


> Be sure that the software running on the camera that films you is also
> free. You wouldn't want to be promoting such devices right?
>
> Even if it is shared through p2p, it is bound to pass routers running
> nonfree software.
>
> In the year Al Gore released his film "An Inconvenient Truth" he
> traveled a lot by airplane across the world to promote his film,
> releasing a lot of greenhouse gases in the process. Doing this differs
> from being hypocritical or dishonest, instead it is looking at the netto
> result of ones actions, the bigger picture.
>
> By protesting against having your speech put on youtube, even though
> valiant, you might decrease freedom around the world. After all it is
> not the people that already run free software exclusively that we are
> trying to convince. It is the ones that do not.

If you do not respect the principled position of somebody worthy of 
respect... how are you going to convince anybody yours is worth anything
 more than you seem to offer?


> Happy Near Earth Approachday,
> David van Deijk.
>

Antonio García. 		 	   		  


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