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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