Comments on: Mozilla grant to PCF

By: fishyman

fishyman — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:07:21 +0000

Mozilla is great for the easy access to addons

By: vinyl siding

vinyl siding — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:32:50 +0000

Sweet. Mozilla is great with their grants.

By: kira

kira — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:35:34 +0000

I actually wish Democracy would allow it to operate more like a media player, so I wouldn’t need a standalone media app !!!
good content, i like this blog/website
keep it up

By: dennis

dennis — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:58:01 +0000

As a Democracy end-user, I say kudos to this decision.

While I can see how some people perceive Democracy as a front-end to VLC, there’s an important distinction that should be made — proprietary formats and availability of content.

Think about watching your podcasts and other content, then think about something like Joost and how quickly you’d sour on a subscription model if it meant you weren’t in control of what you view (”premium content” decided for you), when you view it (blackout, geographic, and other restrictions), or on what platforms you’re able to view it with (DRM vs. open standards).

Just my $0.02.

By: free wii

free wii — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:58:30 +0000

Very nice! Good to see one great organization support another.

By: seth bindernagel

seth bindernagel — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:19:05 +0000

To Alex’s comments above, this grant came from the Mozilla Corporation. Thanks for asking for the distinction.

As for the other comments, thank you! Please keep the opinions coming. I have asked some others who might have something to say to chime in if they feel compelled to do so. I for one like what everyone has to say and will be thinking about these types of comments as we move forward. Thanks.

By: sander

sander — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:11:51 +0000

I second Nÿco: integration of XMPP would make Democracy Player a lot more sexy than it now already is. Another feature that is hardly missing: HTTP proxy support. Currently, I can’t retrieve the channels list because of this.

By: ~bc

~bc — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:28:12 +0000

I must say that in my opinion Democracy is just a pretty frontend for the Open Source video player ‘VLC’

Not so much. Whereas Democracy does allow you to play video, you don’t download Democracy to be your sole media player. (I actually wish Democracy would allow it to operate more like a media player, so I wouldn’t need a standalone media app.

Simon is right: Democracy is innovative in the finding and downloading of content. They didn’t need to reinvent video playing, so they left that to the VLC/FFMpeg (or whomever) folks. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do with Open Source?

Thanks for the grant Mozilla. I look forward to future revisions of this app with a bright and hopefully impactful future.

By: Alex Bishop

Alex Bishop — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:23:24 +0000

This is a case where it would be really useful to specify whether “Mozilla” means the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Corporation. It makes the reference to the “Mozilla Board” ambiguous as both the Foundation and the Corporation have separate boards.

It’s confusing people. See the LWN article about the Democracy funding for an example.

Now I think that “Mozilla” in this case refers to the Mozilla Corporation. But I’m not certain. And I’ve been following the progress of the Mozilla project on an almost daily basis for over seven years.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:19:30 +0000

puntloos: By that logic, you’d want them to grant money to Linux, GNU, and a whole bunch of other dependencies. It also sounds like you haven’t tried Democracy – it’s not centred on playing videos, the main innovation is in how it makes it easier to find and download them.