I thought it might be fun to try hosting one o’ thems fancy YuuuwToob videos here. Don’t know if it’s something I’ll want to do that often. I’m leery of relying on another web site to provide a major component of a post, especially in this case where I don’t know how long-term I can depend on a YouTube video to be available with all the take-downs happening and sure to come. I’d hope that the owner of the copyright on this particular clip wouldn’t demand its removal, but you never know. Another potential problem: Can you even view YouTube videos with free software?
This is a companion piece to this week’s Free Software Magazine entry, and related to the Gandhi quote in this recent post. Beyond that, I’ll let the FSM entry and the film/commercial say the rest…
(I don’t know how easily these are viewed in free operating systems. I think it requires flash, which I’ll want to get running on my own GNU/Linux machines to learn for myself how easy or difficult it is. I’m guessing flash isn’t free as in freedom. Apologies if you don’t see the video. You can find other formats at www.redhat.com/truthhappens/, including Ogg Theora.)
Related: ‘Then They Fight You’
2 Comments
Hey Scott
Thought you might like to know there is an essay about the “Free Software” movement in the current issue of the New Internationalist.
As a fan of the movement I thought you would want to know.
30 November 2006 at 6:48 pm
Thanks for the tip — I’d like to read it but I don’t see it out at the NI web site.
30 November 2006 at 11:04 pm