- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:04:12 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Christian Kaiser" <kaiserc@google.com>
- Cc: "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:57:23 +0100, Christian Kaiser <kaiserc@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 08:48, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Engineers are generally unable to come up with innovative approaches >> when their hands are tied by contracts and anti-circumvention laws. >> > > True in some cases. They also can't innovate if the barrier to entry is > too > high. Lowering the barrier to entry is one of the IMHO positive side > effects of the proposal at hand. If we're talking about innovation within and entry to the browser market, this doesn't make sense. The proposal at hand requires a few proprietary and/or royalty-encumbered de facto standard CDMs to emerge, which can do nothing but *raise* the barriers of entry. Because browsers cannot have full control over the CDMs, it will also limit their ability to fix bugs, optimize and to innovate -- e.g. one couldn't add brightness/contrast controls because the video decoder output is not available. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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