On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jim <jimtay...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> The community received no support from Mozilla. Mozilla have supported the > W3C and the EME all the way, and are still a member of the W3C. Even when > W3C employees started joking about assassinating EME dissenters Mozilla was > silent. Mozilla have a representative on the W3C TAG and the TAG produced a > draft document on the EME that is a complete joke, just ask Henri. Mozilla > has made no formal objection to the EME at the W3C. > > Mozilla sold out for fear of losing market share. You didn't even try to > make a case to users to stick with Firefox if they were forced to use an > alternative browser to view some media content. Windows users already have > IE installed and you could have just deferred to IE for content requiring > EME - users have already chosen to use Firefox over IE so see value in > Firefox. There was a proposal made at the W3C that would have further > mitigated concerns of losing market share but Mozilla was not interested. > > You might all be surprised that the EME is not even about DRM, it's > purpose is to lock users into using proprietary web based media players. > The EME is just a JS API, it is not a media decoder and can not play > content without proprietary JS downloaded from the content distributors > website. Mozilla understood this and insisted on this design. > > You've sold out on the contemporary operation of the web. Your evil. > > > This is the wrong decision. The Mozilla leadership has failed and I > believe is irredeemable. For all those who think Brendan would have done > differently, he was just as spineless on this issue. > > The question for the Mozilla community is what to do now. Will the Mozilla > leadership go quietly if they are voted out? Or do we need to fork off > development to a separate organization? > > Jim, from these comments and your contributions to other discussions in recent weeks, it's clear that you're deeply mistrusting of everything Mozilla (Corporation and Foundation) leadership and employees say. This is your right, obviously, as much as I wish that you gave us the benefit of the doubt to a larger extent. If you want to read an in-depth analysis, that answers many of the questions you asked, by someone I hope you can trust, Cory Doctorow's piece for the Guardian is an excellent read: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow thanks, till _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
