On Oct 20, 2008, at 4:35 AM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > The answer is that Microsoft had a product that had functionality > that we consider wrong. Microsoft has admitted it was a mistake and > removed the feature. Or, put another way, the people working on the Silverlight project quite reasonably assumed that they had no role in policing the linking actions of authors, since client-side Web software usually doesn't concern itself with policing copyright. Then their bosses realized what was going on and reminded that team of the draconian stance Microsoft had taken on the issue. And instead of changing the unreasonable stance, they asked their team to partially cripple the software. Does Flash suffer from the same DRM-inhibited embedding policies?
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