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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by toyg on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @06:27PM (#7746831)
Mozilla has had real power for a brief period, when both MS and Google had their eyes off the ball. Once Chrome matured, the game was up. It didn't help that it took them ages to fix widespread performance problems in FF...

This said, if they go back to their roots as "ayatollah of open web and open source", I might consider them again; but until they're just another ad-backed bureaucracy, I might as well stick to a better one.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by emilsedgh on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @06:42PM (#7746901)
ayatollah of open web and open source

That's FSF. And guess what? Everyone hates it! [0]

Nicest thing about Mozilla is that they have a great balance of ideology and being practical.

[0] Of course not everyone, specially not me. But you get my point.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by fabrice_d on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @06:42PM (#7746900)
Mozilla was never "ayatollah of open web and open source". If it has been, firefox would have never been available on Windows, like some people at the time argued.

Google did well technically on Chrome, but investing a huge amount of marketing dollars (like bundling chrome with other nice things like toolbars) didn't hurt them.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by aylons on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:33PM (#7747152)
Well, even emacs is available for Windows. I guess not even ayatollahs are that extreme.

They may concede if they think it will help their great goal.

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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by takluyver on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:19PM (#7747333)
Mozilla still has some power, but they don't think they have enough to mount a lone assault on video DRM. I'm inclined to agree with them.

But I'd rather they saved that power for the next fight rather than going kamikaze on this. I'm sure there will be a next fight, and there's a good chance that it will be something smaller, or they'll have another major browser on their side.

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