Should We Fight for Ogg Vorbis?
I'm a big fan of Richard Stallman and his work – even though, the first time I interviewed him, he proceeded to criticise my questions before answering them, not a journalistic experience I'd had before. Without his vision and sheer bloody-mindedness in the face of indifference and outright hostility, we would not have the vast array of free software we enjoy today.
More recently, he has built on his growing success in creating a flourishing free software ecosystem by moving on to address important related issues. These include fighting DRM (“Digital Restrictions Management” as Stallman likes to call it) through the DefectiveByDesign campaign, and battling against Microsoft Vista with the BadVista initiative.
I think that's good news: DRM is emerging as one of the last major obstacles to the wider use of free software, and Microsoft's Vista represents a significant bolstering of the DRM approach – to the point that Vista has been memorably described as a “DRM infection masquerading as an OS”. But there is another campaign that the Free Software Foundation has recently launched that I am less sure about. It's called PlayOgg:
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