[consulting] Video Streaming Provider recommendations

[Zohar Stolar]

As their partners, we have alerted them several times about these
issues, and even agreed with the inevitable steps to exclude them from
directly maintaining the module.

However, now that the module is in external hands (and recently we also
participated in it's maintenance) hidden links and the likes should not
happen anymore.

The events were a bad decision of a marketing person (or similar), but
not evil. The fact the Kaltura agreed to the arrangement without arguing
should be pointed out as a good point for them.

They did bad, but they accepted the right solution, and now that this is
the situation, people can test the module without worrying.


One other (good and encouraging) lesson we should all take from this
story, is that the community is truly powerful. It's a great success
story for open source in general, and for the Drupal community in
particular. I don't think it will be exagurated to say the we "educated"
a company, and since it accepted the lesson, we should also embrace it back.


As for another thing that was mentioned somewhere in the thread, about
them inserting branding in the module - this is not unique to Kaltura,
and is actually very common for 3rd party modules, where the whole
essence of the module is dependent on an external (branded) service.

Zohar Stolar


On 1/14/11 4:10 PM, Justin Ellison wrote:

> I'm going from memory here as well, but I thought those issues were
> addressed because the Security team only gave commit access to a
> non-Kaltura employee.  This community member was responsible for
> cleaning up the hidden iFrames.
>
> Again, from memory, but the reason the security team would not give
> CVS access back to Kaltura was because it wasn't the first time that
> the Kaltura developers had hidden spyware within the module.
>
> I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'...
>
> :)
>
> Justin
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Aaron Winborn <winborn at advomatic.com> wrote:
>> To be fair to them, they did address those issues, as I recall. However,
>> they also add branding to their service, I believe.
>>
>> On 01/14/2011 05:56 AM, Justin Ellison wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Jonathan Wagener (Amoebasys)
>>> <Jonathanw at amoebasys.com>  wrote:
>>>> What about kaltura?
>>>>
>>>> http://kaltura.com
>>>>
>>>> they have a drupal module too: http://drupal.org/project/kaltura
>>> While the issues with the d.o module have been resolved, one should
>>> really know what the Kaltura company is about before using their
>>> products: http://drupal.org/project/issues/kaltura?text=spyware&status=All&priorities=All&categories=All&version=All&component=All
>>>
>>> I haven't used either the module or anything from the company, I just
>>> remember the s%^tstorm they created awhile ago.
>>>
>>> Justin
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