Re: Encrypted Media proposal (was RE: ISSUE-179: av_param - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals) from Andreas Kuckartz on 2012-03-02 (public-html@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
Date: 2 Mar 2012 22:16:07 +0100
To: "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com>
Cc: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F513897.2080801@ping.de>

On 02.03.2012 21:30, Charles Pritchard wrote:
> This proposal encourages outfits to use HTML, instead
> of getting stuck in Flash/Silverlight. That's a good thing, isn't it?

It now seems to be obvious that the complete source code of not a single
relevant CDM would become available. And perhaps not even binary
versions would become available for Open Source operating systems such
as Linux.

I personally do not care that much about replacing the dependency from
one piece of proprietary software by a dependency from another piece of
proprietary software.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 2 March 2012 21:16:30 UTC