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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by MikeTaylor on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:50PM (#14723184)
If the W3C does this, it will be time -- regrettably -- to turn away from that organisation and make a completely new one that exists to serve users of the Web rather than those seeking to monetise it. That Tim Berners-Lee has lent his name to this hijacking is shameful.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by gue5t on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:03PM (#14723250)
How are we to deal with the problem that the browser developers are also on the side of monetization?
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by objclxt on Friday July 07, 2017 @10:47PM (#14723783)
How do you propose that your new utopian organization actually get its standards implemented by user agents?

The only time there has been a half successful splintering off of the W3C was WHATWG, and WHATWG only worked because it was backed by the browser vendors themselves.

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