- From: Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@mozilla-community.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:20:14 +0300
- To: John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>
- Cc: 'Matt Ivie' <matt.ivie@gmail.com>, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org, 'Mark Watson' <watsonm@netflix.com>
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 08:36 -0700, John Foliot wrote: > Matt Ivie wrote: > > > > This statement also assumes that the platform that the CDM is running > > on > > has APIs that support Digital Restrictions Management. If that's the > > case then then something running in the OS isn't Free Software either > > and there is a required compromise for this solution as well. You're > > just moving the non-free software to a different part of the system. > > According to *your* definition of what Free Software should be. > > It strikes me that Firefox and Amaya (to name 2 "Open" web browsers) will happily run on Windows, and neither the Mozilla foundation nor the W3C seem to feel that this is in contradiction to their Missions. > > Are you now suggesting that Firefox (to remain truly Free Software) should not be supported on the Windows platform because Windows 8 has a DRM component that the EME is interacting with? I think he means that the *users* that choose Free Software (on both browser and OS) would be excluded from using this technology and get access to the content. That's clearly out of W3C's mission.
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