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On 05/15/2014 09:33 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
> On 15/05/2014 14:01, Jim wrote:
>
>> On 2014-05-15 11:38, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> Mozilla sold out for fear of losing market share.
>
> Sorry, where does "sold out" come from? We receive no financial
> compensation in any way for this decision, so I strenuously object to
> you suggesting we had any motivation except "our users will want
> this content" and "we need our users to be able to use Firefox to
> browse /all/ of the web, in order to be able to fight another day
> against DRM and other anti-openness proposals for the web".
I think the idea is that you're being compensated for including this not
in money ("financial compensation"), but in market share.
It looks to me more like caving to blackmail than like accepting a
bribe, and looking at it in that light changes where the fault appears
to lie, but the idea is at least not internally inconsistent.
DRM-hostile though I am, and much though I've disliked many things
Mozilla has done (and the ways Mozilla has done them) over the last
several years, this really does look to me like the least of several
evils.
The true blame here does not lie with Mozilla, but with the people
pushing for DRM, and the middlemen who act as their enablers. (Although
some people may now not unreasonably consider Mozilla to fall in that
latter category, I would at least say that they are less so than the
people at the W3C who accepted the idea of building this into HTML.)
- --
The Wanderer
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them.
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