*facepalm*
*facepalm*
Posted May 19, 2014 4:18 UTC (Mon) by Arker (guest, #14205)In reply to: *facepalm* by gerv
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM
Technically correct - the DRM-free web is not something you or anything else can create, not least because it already exists. WE built it over the decades past. And what is happening is not that you are failing to create something you could not create, what is happening is you are failing to defend something that we already created, but are in danger of losing. You just rolled over and gave up. You can spin that till your voice gives out, no one is buying it.
Posted May 19, 2014 17:53 UTC (Mon)
by gerv (guest, #3376)
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You mean some bits of the web are DRM-free. (If you are asserting the entire web is DRM-free, I think your reality distortion field is too strong for us to continue debating further. You can only do that by defining "web" as excluding all the bits you don't like - "what my net don't catch ain't fish".)
The trouble is, people are interested in the bits of the web that use DRM today (via Flash and Silverlight). Today, Firefox delegates to NPAPI plugins so it can be an all-of-the-web browser. Tomorrow, that solution won't be available. So we have two choices - become a some-of-the-web browser, or find a technical alternative.
*facepalm*