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Unfortunately, the principled path is not tenable for Mozilla in this position. They were seriously damaged by their refusal to implement H.264 due to its paten
by cookiecaper 13y ago
Unfortunately, the principled path is not tenable for Mozilla in this position. They were seriously damaged by their refusal to implement H.264 due to its patented nature, which they gave up recently. Mozilla has the choice of taking their lumps by swallowing this piece of crap and continuing to survive or becoming obsolete. If users can watch videos without a struggle in Chrome but can't watch in Firefox, what's the effect going to be? Firefox is already on the ropes, they can't handle another H.264 debacle.
- rurounijones 13y agoYou stand by your principle or you don't have one. "We 98% stand by our principles but at the end of the day, if it is important enough, we will cave like we did before" Is not an inspiring message. Mozilla should stop the whole "We are Mozilla Doing good is part of our code", "Different by design" shtick because it is no longer true, they are now just another software house that makes a browser.