On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:55 PM, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca> wrote: > > Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> That's a lot of words for just trying to state a variant of "you're > >> intolerant if you don't tolerate intolerance". > > > > Actually Tab, not exactly. > > > > I am suggesting that if the web is to truly remain Open, *anyone* can > contribute a standard to the larger stack, and that no one group or > philosophy should set themselves up as gatekeepers, which is the net effect > of what the EFF and others appear to be attempting to do. > > That's exactly what I said. Trying to assert that it's "not truly > Open" to block things that reduce open-ness is double-talk. > > The term "reduce" implies a comparison. What are you comparing with ? Not the situation today, I assume, since EME does not make anything less open than it is today with proprietary plugins. > ~TJ > >
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