Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support
by sp332 on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @04:12PM
(#9534526)
"We see DRM in general as profoundly hostile to all three of: users, open source software, and browser vendors who aren’t also DRM vendors." https://brendaneich.com/2013/10/the-bridge-of-khazad-drm/
"We very much want to see a different system. Unfortunately, Mozilla alone cannot change the industry on DRM at this point. In the past Firefox has changed the industry, and we intend to do so again. Today, however, we cannot cause the change we want regarding DRM." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challen...
"this is a radical, disheartening development in the history of the organisation" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-cl...
So no, it's not really more subtle than reported. This is Firefox fighting and losing.
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/taking-freedom-furth...
"What better way to justify the proprietary bits of [Firefox] than a practically stooge [browser] to point at whenever we're questioned!"
All this has happened before. All this will happen again.