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Yet they have it on Chromebook. Why can't they just use that same code and limit it to Google Chrome?
by pspeter3 14y ago
Yet they have it on Chromebook. Why can't they just use that same code and limit it to Google Chrome?
- acdha 14y agoChromeOS implies a huge pile of system decisions. Imagine the outrage if they shipped support only for a single distribution or desktop environment!
- pspeter3 14y agoBut it is already on Chrome OS. It is certainly not ideal to limit it to one browser, but at least it would get it to linux users faster and they can improve from there.
- bunderbunder 14y agoWithout knowing more about the details, we can't assume that it's so simple. It might be that there is other software beyond Chrome itself that Netflix relies on in Chromebooks, and that software may or may not play nice with arbitrary distributions. Example wild speculation: Netflix for the Chromebooks relies on a kernel extension for DRM, and they know they wouldn't be able to get the desktop Linux community at large to swallow that pill.
- notatoad 14y agochromebooks have hardware DRM. your arbitrary linux computer doesnt.
- nuclear_eclipse 14y agoChromeOS supports certain DRM mechanisms through NaCl that are not available (or perhaps trustable?) on a standard Linux environment.
- naner 14y agoNetflix is available on several Linux devices (Chromebook, Android, Roku, Linux-based TVs, etc.) but these devices usually have some hardware-based DRM features available. There are no standards for DRM on the Linux desktop and we certainly don't have any hardware support for DRM so I don't see this ever coming to fruition.