Eich strongly opposed DRM and patent-encumbered formats like H.264, but he also understood the realities of the situation[0]. The writing has been on the wall

Eich strongly opposed DRM and patent-encumbered formats like H.264, but he also understood the realities of the situation[0]. The writing has been on the wall for a while - as soon as Mozilla realized that Google was going to renege on their promise to remove H.264, Firefox was bound to include it (since H.264 wasn't going anywhere). As soon as the W3C enshrined DRM in the HTML standard, it was a matter of when, not if, Firefox would be forced to, assuming the media industry adopted it (which they will). The only alternative would be for Firefox to hold out and refuse to adopt it, watching their userbase shift away to all the other browsers that did support it. [0] http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/brendan-eich-mozillas-cto-on-eme-and-drm/index.htm http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/11/bre...