Re: Trust

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On Oct 17, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> As I've repeatedly explained, free software users and some content owners
>> have, through their individual decisions and principles, forever
>> alienated themselves from each other. They cannot meet, because there respective
>> requirements are logically incompatible. Insisting that we bridge this
>> divide is insisting on something impossible.
>
> No-one is insisting that anyone bridge that divide.
>
> What we're saying is that the W3C is not an appropriate body to address
> DRM, because DRM is inimical to the W3Cs stated goals and mission.  One
> of those reasons is that CDMs - the sole reason for EME to exist - will
> not be fully implementable in FOSS.

Putting aside the absence of a formal FOSS requirement anywhere in the
W3C policies, I have a hard time discerning any blue sky between EME
and <object> on this criterion.

...Mark
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Received on Thursday, 17 October 2013 23:28:54 UTC