-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/15/2014 05:38 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> It's not a question of absolutes. We don't have anywhere near as much > marketshare that we can call all the shots all the time. But that > doesn't mean that we don't have any influence. > > But there was a lot of pressure on the various actors here. And sadly > we don't have enough influence to prevent the badness in this > situation. And we didn't receive enough help from the larger internet > community. > > Where was the internet outrage when Microsoft and Google implemented > this in their browsers? Where was the outrage towards Hollywood > studios asked for this? The fact that people at large simply let them > get away with this silently is ultimately what is forcing our hand > here. For my part, I wasn't aware that this had been implemented by anyone yet, nor that it was yet anything more than a proposal for a standard that had not yet been finalized (and which was seeing opposition from some parties, and might not be finalized at all). I suspect that other people might be in the same position, and this might help explain the lack of previous outcry. I agree that the outrage here should be directed at - and the blame here truly lies with - the people insisting on DRM, and demanding that other people support their efforts to implement DRM. (And secondarily with the people at the W3C who acceded to those demands.) However, I note that with the Hollywood studios, and to some extent the companies behind the other browsers, a lack of outrage is less surprising, because - little though we like it - that sort of thing is what we *expect* them to do, based on their previous behavior; it's "business as usual" from that end of things, so when they do it, our expectations of them are not violated. - From Mozilla, however, we expect a more open, more strongly principled stand. There may be good reasons for not taking it in this particular case, but that violation of expectations is much more likely to spark outrage than is the same action from the other companies, simply because those other companies have already established that we cannot expect them to do anything different. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTdN/pAAoJEASpNY00KDJrvNkP+wX71ixOTSpldPRjRKTtxCLk AXlA69uC01be35ZS6k3yRwamr1f8DI0/TpE3I/CIOasAE1DQw7Kwl9YrUC/in4Wr ZmDGgek16IB8vr1OhGm4nQvr9Kd5jiVmk1OSfbnjjX6gKjmmkPrUVMD5Yfc1knv0 EmewrJHN9+HYAfGn910y0bOXfu4rRjbSbBqau+RsK+XhrX+9jripax2GaAuJvs3I L+uyHsJTnAnStLXlnanvWjEp264r5UCMEjEF7707tF7DSBJRqarJKpnJ1o8zP2r+ 1wSjrHZ0bxSiAs3/D357UYHIiEfPi8Nd1S+oo5m171mpU+kVp7NwjrfL6LlDfrH2 rvqcG52Y0IqZsYgsd2ahrH09Jdagm8MaIj0bzKLtKmIkmhJHRmMfKPnGIVrAK51t KZyRO25ehcb6ingH/Yb8Cyqo1AzUtSSbXc7TZWbLtXPyjUncp745Ng3DhptJbHdU f6W0EANd7blOpA+uXL648ngNOpp7LLvwjHRF+rYvjCki00SxpgY/k9txqITCeLS1 miaUmx7ah7IZ9AKzFGO4IMJbjVmdVda87cASGnsvSfcBlGJ7+tI9Q7sp+cy221w2 bYO6h4yYa2qwy4vXq5uqpbjXzYwb4R1vOfb6YlLrFjioc92yoyZ3DSkP/1fM48di gikBL4lTzMfrPYL+oa1T =cOdR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
