Re: Encrypted Media proposal: Summary of the discussion so far from Andreas Kuckartz on 2012-03-15 (public-html@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
Date: 15 Mar 2012 23:13:53 +0100
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F6269A1.5000705@ping.de>

On 14.03.2012 18:51, Mark Watson wrote:
> We should indeed try to maximize the set of services
> supported by pure FOSS stacks - to make that choice
> as painless as possible. But that is different from saying
> that services which use non-FOSS technologies should
> not be on the web.

The issue here are not proprietary technologies in general but closed,
executable and unspecified code which is to be run on client computers.

I think that the W3C should not only not help in any way to support this
but should explicitly oppose it.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Thursday, 15 March 2012 22:14:18 UTC