Increase the compelling works available on our chosen platform
Increase the compelling works available on our chosen platform
Posted Jun 25, 2006 0:16 UTC (Sun) by bignose (subscriber, #40)In reply to: Increase the compelling works available on our chosen platform by drag
Parent article: Indie Podcasting with Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
> [Apple] refuse to support Ogg, even though their hardware is capable of it.
> (rockbox proves that).
Rockbox is proof that we don't need to be limited by the hardware vendor's default software.
> Most people that listen to podcasts do use ipods.
That's as irrelevant as saying most people that use a computer on their desktop use a Windows on Intel platform. It does not argue against providing the work in a free format, for existing or potential users of the work.
Posted Jun 25, 2006 22:35 UTC (Sun)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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The-powers-that-be have a huge interest in making non-favored formats and items hard to use vs Free software items. This makes things especially difficult... I am not saying that it makes it not worth doing, however. It's very much worth doing.
I think what Free software folks realy need to do is make a Itunes equivelent. Something were you can go to easily find creative content items from intellegent publishers. Something people can use to _advertise_.
Think about it.. There are dozens of smaller indie music publishers that do CC licensed music. There are 'free' multimedia media items like Elephants dreams and numerious interesting artifacts from old film that has since passed into public domain. Even CC licensed ebooks and public domain books.
All sorts of interesting intellectual and timeless items like 'The Plato's Republic'.
The hard part for those people is exposure. Most people don't know stuff like this exists, much less were to get it and how to pay for it.
So you can theoreticly setup a Free software application were people can easily download and enjoy this content on any sort of media player or viewer they like. It's just a way to access this content.
You click on a song, for instance, that looks interesting. You get a picture of the album, a short marketting blurb from the publisher or artist, a link to their website or whatnot. You download it and listen to it (preferably with a open format).
So the end user gets a bunch of free content, the publishers get exposure, developers maybe get some income, and you promote Free formats.
Everybody wins. I think something like that would be great.
Just like the difficulty of simply downloading and correct burning cdroms is a huge barrier for non-technical people vs going to the store and buying a fully configured Windows computer.Increase the compelling works available on our chosen platform