- From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 13 Feb 2013 21:23:21 +0100
- To: "Glenn Adams" <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "Chris Wilson" <cwilso@google.com>, "Robin Berjon" <robin@w3.org>, "Sam Ruby" <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "Fred Andrews" <fredandw@live.com>, "public-html-admin@w3.org" <public-html-admin@w3.org>
Glenn Adams: >>> The issue of OS playing field is a non-issue. It is not just an issue, it is one of the *main* issues. >> Several people disagree. I'm not sure why you think it's a non-issue, >> or why you think it's *such* a non-issue that it can be dismissed >> out-of-hand like that. Producing technologies that will only be >> usable on particular OSes is a bad thing. > > There is nothing about EME that prevents it from being implemented on any > OS. Whether a given CDM is supported on an OS/UA combination or natively in > a OS is a deployment decision outside of the scope of the EME > specification. There is nothing in principle that prevents any CDM from > functioning on an OS. That's why this is a non-issue. The "principle" of DRM (closedness) is incompatible with Open Source (openness). EME is useless without CDMs implementing DRM. Therefore either EME is incompatible with Open Source or EME is useless. Cheers, Andreas
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