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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by duncan_bayne on Monday January 13, 2014 @11:03PM (#7055286)
In which case they're being supportive in private, and utterly quiet in public. That's a neat trick in itself.

But I don't think it's an issue of what they believe, it's an issue of what the actual licensing terms are. Those are the real requirements, and so far they've not been made available.

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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by gsnedders on Monday January 13, 2014 @11:14PM (#7055330)
I don't think there's any WG which includes all W3C members — most members simply don't care enough to wish to dedicate resources to every WG, not to mention the extra obligations it makes them take on via the patent policy. The situation isn't at all unusual — just a more contentious subject matter!
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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by duncan_bayne on Monday January 13, 2014 @11:26PM (#7055373)
That's true ... but this is a most fundamental issue. I'd have expected that the companies that have benefited historically from the Open Web would be at least a little concerned. Like Google. Oh, wait.
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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by jdjb on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:03AM (#7056733)
Google's now got two of their own OS'es (one of which has 85% of the worldwide market on the fastest growing segment of personal computing...) and a leading browser in the desktop space. Whatever caring about an Open Web they had before (when they were at the whims of Microsoft, Apple, other browser makers, etc) is long gone.
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