Re: "Open Web Platform" versus "Web Platform" Re: Netflix HTML5 player in IE 11 on Windows 8.1

Olivier Thereaux:
> On 28 Jun 2013, at 06:38, "Andreas Kuckartz" <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:
>> We are talking about the "Open Web Platform" aren't we? "Standards"
>> which can not be implemented using an Open Source license chosen by
>> the implementer are not part of that.
>
>> To some extend it is funny to watch closed source proponents
>> attempting to (re-)define "Open" in a way which is incompatible with
>> Open Source.
...
> Our problem is *precisely* that there has been a lot of ambiguity
> about what the "open web platform" is (other than a good - and recent
> - brand for the W3C to talk about most of its specs). Is it a
> platform built with open standards (open as in "developed in the
> open") or is it a standard platform compatible with the FLOSS ethos
> (open as in "open source")?

> The answer is... Yes, it's one or the other. Or maybe something
> in between.

It is not an either or. And DRM is not "open" in any of the two stated
interpretations of "open".

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 28 June 2013 11:07:29 UTC