Hi there,<br><br>I was very pleased to discover the Spread Open Media project. I run <a href="http://bytesfree.org">bytesfree.org</a>, which is a site dedicated to the link between digital rights or information rights and human rights. The very premise of
<a href="http://bytesfree.org">bytesfree.org</a> is that you cannot have the right to education or a level playing field if you have artificial barriers to entry designed solely to keep people from participating, ie. proprietary, closed formats. It is my position that any platform for human rights must include the right to access legally-obtained information. I cannot see how the digital divide problem can ever be solved without official recognition of that right. For more on this topic, see
<a href="http://www.bytesfree.org/wiki/index.php/RightsPaper">http://www.bytesfree.org/wiki/index.php/RightsPaper</a><br><br>I'm very impressed with what you're trying to do, even if our approaches differ. I would like to see how we might work together going forward.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Cyrus Mack<br>