Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

> If you believe that profit and the Free Market system is flawed, then that
> is a completely different conversation, and one likely not appropriate at
> the W3C.

You've suggested a couple of times on the list that people opposed to
the EME proposal are in some way opposed to free markets and capitalism.

I can't speak for others, but my opinion is that a free market is the
only moral way for a society to operate; the alternatives are various
levels of slavery and / or warfare.

No-one here (to my knowledge) is arguing that companies should not be
free to work on DRM, or that customers should not be free to accept or
reject DRM systems by voting with their wallets.

All we're arguing is that the W3C is not an appropriate place to
standardise DRM, or interfaces to it.  

I also appreciate that we lost that argument before it began, and as
I've mentioned, this fact is the source of some anger and sadness
amongst non-member participants.

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Received on Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:04:02 UTC