Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 13:50 -0700, John Foliot wrote:
> Nikos Roussos wrote:
> > 
> > Excluding Free Software users is also a technical flaw.
> 
> No, it is a decision taken by some users to not use software that does not meet their expectations, for whatever reasons they deem the software unsuitable. The software *does* work, just not in the way you want it to work. That's a philosophical stance, not a technical limitation or flaw. Software solutions that do not meet philosophical requirements are not by extension technically flawed, only (at best) philosophically so.

No, it is a technological flow because excluding Free Software users you
lose interoperability, another W3C's principle that contradicts with
EME.

> > >
> > > You will have succeeded in neutering the W3C.
> > 
> > We agree that this would have an impact on W3C's future, but we read
> > this very differently
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
> > restrictedmedia/2013Jun/0293.html
> 
> In that posting, you wrote:
> 
>  "It's safe to say that there is a consensus among those who object to
> EME, that we believe it contradicts with Open Web principles and
> therefore W3C's mission. If EME gets approved the most important thing
> we'll lose is W3C."
> 
> I won't lose the W3C, neither will anyone else: the W3C will continue to exist, (...).

Of course it will continue to exist. But it would be irrelevant in the
Open Web world.

Received on Monday, 8 July 2013 11:50:39 UTC