Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by unlmtd1 on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:38PM
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Good! Let them do that, and let us keep working on things like ipfs, blockchain naming systems, matrix and host identity protocols. The more they try to corrupt the web, the more energy goes into fixing the broken architectures. Then one day, nobody will use the broken DRM net. Politics is a programmer's most wasteful use of his time. Code them out of business.
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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by olegkikin on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:43PM
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Unfortunately network effect is HUGE when it comes to the internet. Just because you can code a superior internet, doesn't mean people will move to it en masse.
Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns
by spiralganglion on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:03PM
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All networks have a lifespan. Some of those lifespans are longer than ours. But there will come a day when another user-facing network supersedes the internet.
Many "superior internets" will have lived and died before then, so your statement holds. But progress depends on someone who doesn't resign themselves to failure.