Re: What would we have to demonstrate to change your mind?

> EME will remain outside of the one place where it
> stood to at least have something of a public review, and public feedback.
> 
> Progress in the name of "Openness".

Okay, let's say you're right.  Then, the two alternatives are:

 - A fragmented landscape, with some content protected by proprietary
 closed-source blobs.  Users of non-mainstream OSs (GNU/Linux, Firefox
 OS) won't be able to access some or any of that content.  The interface
 between the browser and said proprietary closed-source blobs is an
 ad-hoc industry standard.

vs.

 - A fragmented landscape, with some content protected by proprietary
 closed-source blobs.  Users of non-mainstream OSs (GNU/Linux, Firefox
 OS) won't be able to access some or any of that content.  The interface
 between the browser and said proprietary closed-source blobs is a W3C
 recommendation.

How, exactly, is the latter scenario worth sacrificing the principles of
the Open Web? 

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Received on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 03:45:44 UTC