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The title is totally and completely inaccurate. Google is NOT blocking the author from creating a web browser. Google is apparently unable to license the DRM co
by writepub 8y ago
The title is totally and completely inaccurate. Google is NOT blocking the author from creating a web browser. Google is apparently unable to license the DRM code/binary to the author.
Just to set the record straight, the author's browser is based off Chromium, funded largely by Google. However, for whatever reasons (and I can see many legal ones for the inability to license a DRM module), Google cannot license the DRM module. The author is free to implement it himself, Google is not "blocking" him.
Another point of note - the author is NOT entitled to widevine, so this pitchforking of Google is simply uncalled for. If the author finds Google to be "blocking" him, maybe asking Apple or Mozilla for WideVine support in a browser that competes with their own offerings is a way to go, and to validate which company is actually willing to work with competing open source offerings