[Freefilm-development] Slashdot Reports Hollywood Attitude

[Jonathan D. <jd...@my...>]

Hi,
   Because this is of such grave importance to
the Free Film Project, I'm bringing the Slashdot
article on Hollywood's anti-Open Source attitude
to the attention of everyone involved in the FFP.
   Essentially, the companies involved in the
DeCSS affair have branded -ALL- Opn Source
efforts as piracy, and an attempt to steal
copyright material.
   Whilst this is not a "personal" attack on the
FFP (or even DeCSS), it's still a meanacing
stance.
   I therefore want to do a straw-poll on the
lists, on whether or not to make any kind of
response and what sort of response that should
be.
   The four options I would like to propose are
as follows, in no specific order:

   1) Produce the best set of movies we can, and
exploit the phobia where possible to get more
people involved.

   2) Don't react, don't respond, until or
unless there is action taken to hinder or stop
work on the Free Film Project.

   3) As a project, write a formal letter to
(gently) correct the critisism, and try to sell
them the code we already have and/or has been
promised.

   4) Treat this like any other Slashdot crisis
and post up a bunch of "First Post"'s.


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