I think with open source and standards we lose control the moment things become too complex for a group of open source developers to develop. At this point you

I think with open source and standards we lose control the moment things become too complex for a group of open source developers to develop. At this point you need funding, organized efforts or corporate backers who bring their own agendas. Or be on the sidelines for decades while the work is done incrementally like Linux. For web browsers we have long passed that point. The level of complexity and ongoing effort rules out independent projects which means we are stuck with large corporate efforts like Chrome, Edge, Safari or token open ones like Firefox that trade on openness but are happy to collude with other browser makers to act against user interests. With this kind of ecosystem its inevitable user interests or things like open web standards will be thrown under the bus when it has no benefits to the projects. Mozilla has enough resources to take a stand against this or collaborate with orgs like EFF and try to rally users. It has certainly done that before, but nothing happened here. If Netflix wants to deliver DRM let them make their own app, there is no need to get browsers involved in any way. Linux was never about convenience, it was and is about openness and users and developers have persevered for decades to get here. It would have been 'convenient' to stick to Windows at the outset but then there would be no Linux as we know it today.