We have linux and windows builds now as well. Anyone else who is interested
in joining our slack channel during the alpha stage, just let me know the
best email to send an invite to.

Thanks
Devon

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Devon Read <devon@???> wrote:

> Alexander,
>
> Happy to invite you, stoked you're so excited. Yes, it will be FOSS, but
> at the moment our repositories are all private. Coders want a few more
> weeks to pretty up their work before letting everyone critique it.
>
> And yes, the intention is for there to be some DRM options for content
> creators. amanda palmer wrote a great book where she argues that free stuff
> along with the ability to tip is the best solution possible, and that it
> will give artists better returns and a more healthy relationship with their
> audience. i think she's probably right, but i know that many content
> creators will only be willing to share more substantial work if people need
> to buy it to get it. youtubers will likely see the immediate value of a
> platform in which ads are not required to make some money for their work,
> but feature film makers and many musicians will want to start out with what
> they're used to. most of the music industry has moved away from DRM thank
> goodness, and the simple existence of PopcornTime (and the fact that it
> serves ~10m people per day) should be enough evidence that hollywood is
> losing the "war on piracy" and that they should embrace new technology and
> get over DRM, but i dont think it'll happen for a couple years still. but
> again, any DRM features we add will simply be available for content
> creators to employ, the default will always be free+tipping. All tipping
> and other payment activities run through FLO inside the platform; more
> demand leads to more volume which should result in a higher coin value
> which should result in more mining power, so it's important to keep it this
> way so that the security of the blockchain and the data in it increases
> along with the use of the platform, but for the sake of ease of use, very
> soon we'll be adding a mechanism to let users start from whatever crypto
> they've got and run thru a super simple and quick exchange process (aiming
> to use ShapeShift's APIs) to get FLO for all of their Alexandria
> activities, as well as a process just as simple to exchange into any other
> crypto on the other end.
>
> Devon
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Alexander .S.T. Ross <
> maillist_unsystem@???> wrote:
>
>> I'm very interested, I've been thinking about video distribution for the
>> last few years but I’m a newbie with technical wise but I wanted a
>> distributed, p2p way of doing it but lacked the understanding on how to
>> do it, so I’ve been waiting and seeing what others who understand this
>> stuff could come up with and it sounds like your doing it! :D wooo!
>>
>> Releasing it all under a free software or compatible license?
>>
>> re paying options , I dearly hope this doesn't sound like some form of
>> drm?
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