On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 06:54, Glynn Foster wrote: > > If someone is willing to do this, or if someone who already uses > > RealPlayer wants to do the conversion, I won't reject the results. > > However, pressing a person to violate his principles by installing a > > non-free program is acutely disrespectful. > > Let's not kid ourselves here. People have the 'right' to not choose to > view the footage without violating whatever they hold dear to > themselves. By now this is probably the 20th message on this topic. I think it is important to keep these comments in context. The remark Glynn quoted referred to the claim that Rui should install a non-free program to convert the files rather than being an armchair general. That quote therefore had nothing to do with the `right' to not choose to view the footage, since viewing it wasn't the issue. Andreas PS: As far as I am concerned this whole discussion is only (once again) the distinction between the `open source movement' and the `free software' movement.
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