Liberating Content
Speaker | Benjamin Otte |
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Time | 2009-01-22 16:00 |
Conference | LCA2009 |
https://swfdec.freedesktop.org - free flash player - not done yet.
Why write a flash player?
- I want flash to go away.
- Liberate content.
Content
- things we work on
- all the things we ever did
Content gets lost
- Discussions we forget?
- Put it on the internet? Store it locally?
Hard to access
- Content restrictions: DRM, etc
- Difficult protocols: Flash, etc
- Obsolete media: VHS tapes, etc
- Obsolete/changing file formats: game demos, firefox history, etc
Awareness. Who
- does backups?
- saves blog posts locally? (when posting to remote server)
- knows browser.history_expire_days?
- bash expiration history
Freedom vs freeness
- take the best tool of the job
- flash not free; in 5 years time you may not be able to play your old files anymore.
Awareness: We only care when we encounter problems. What is my password?
Content vs. Culture
- MPAA vs “amateurs”.
- Flash vs HTML
- .NET/Java vs JS/PHP/Python/etc
- Bytecode vs open code
- Byte code “nobody can steal my code”; open code: other people can study code.
- GPL - free user; BSD - free developer
If in doubt, fix the future.
HTML5 support for video formats.