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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by CHY872 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:06PM (#7747285)
No. Google has power because it has influence outside of web browsers. Mozilla have basically no leverage - their product is at best highly competitive with a number of other choices. If Firefox becomes irrelevant, Mozilla as an organisation dies - no money to pay the bills. If Chrome becomes irrelevant, Google's still very much a functioning company.
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Re:Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose by vehementi on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:45PM (#7747408)
The organization dying or not is off topic. We're talking about which company has the clout to stop the DRM via not implementing it in their browser. Surely Chrome would die out just like Firefox would if Google decided to Do No Evil here. Chrome/Google would fail to stop the DRM, so Chrome/Google didn't have power.

Or do you think that because of Android or something, Google would be able to stop the DRM when every other browser/device supported it?

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