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Although I am sure the situation is more subtle than reported, I am reminded of this old ELER: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/taking-freedom-further h
by jordigh 12y ago
Although I am sure the situation is more subtle than reported, I am reminded of this old ELER:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/taking-freedom-further http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/taking-freedom-furth...
"What better way to justify the proprietary bits of [Firefox] than a practically stooge [browser] to point at whenever we're questioned!"
All this has happened before. All this will happen again.
- sp332 12y ago"We see DRM in general as profoundly hostile to all three of: users, open source software, and browser vendors who aren’t also DRM vendors." https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/ https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/ "We very much want to see a different system. Unfortunately, Mozilla alone cannot change the industry on DRM at this point. In the past Firefox has changed the industry, and we intend to do so again. Today, however, we cannot cause the change we want regarding DRM." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen... "this is a radical, disheartening development in the history of the organisation" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-cl... So no, it's not really more subtle than reported. This is Firefox fighting and losing.