Unreasonable Demands
There was a little bit of a set-to on identi.ca yesterday, wherein Bradley Kuhn of the SFLC felt it necessary to "denounce" people who were expressing some excitement there about "Hulu" bringing out a version for Linux. According to Kuhn, such interest is a "tragedy".
I took some issue with Kuhn online myself, as did others; Raji Pinjala commented, "I never saw Linux as a gated community". Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has written an excellent blog post on the issues here.
As Brockmeier points out there, denouncing people over software (remember, kids: it's all just ones and zeroes at the end of the day) never makes sense. You can't shame folks (and certainly not those who don't have any investment in your opinion of them—they'll just think you're a judgmental dope, and they'll be right, too) into doing much of anything, and if you manage to do so, the result—grudging acquiesecence followed by growing dislike for having been burdened not only with inconvenience but opprobrium—is surely not worth the effort.
More to the point, the necessity to try such cheap histrionics as a "motivator" shows a certain intellectual bankruptcy. "Why don't use just use VLC and MythTV"? Kuhn asks. Simple: Hulu is, in large part, about the content. This sort of appeal to shame doesn't start or stop here, though.
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