This is similar to many other situations in the history of Linux. It's generally a matter of giving someone the option to do something vs forcing it on their ma

This is similar to many other situations in the history of Linux. It's generally a matter of giving someone the option to do something vs forcing it on their machine. The W3C action is interpreted (rightly or wrongly) as forcing DRM on your machine whether you want it or not. Having the ability to watch Netflix, if you want, is not controversial among most Linux users. The closest previous situation was probably the blow-up over Mono being installed by default. If it had been available for installation by those who wanted it, there would have been no issue, but it instead had to be installed and then removed. [To avoid upsetting anyone, I didn't care much one way or the other, I'm just saying that was the source of the problem.]