Iceweaseal and a wide variety of other mozilla forks will remove this in a heartbeat. Palemoon, etc. Because mozilla wants to specifically isolate this away so they don’t have liability close to the rest of their source tree (as they’ve said repeatedly), it’ll be easy to rebuild firefox without this.
I hope that happens, but I’m not sure you understand this is about principles.
this is clickbait bullshit …
Cory isn’t the only person upset about this. Even people within the Mozilla Foundation and community are pissed because it’s a matter of principle. Whether or not people can offer non-DRM forks is beside the point in this regard.
Why assume bad faith? What this could be instead of nefarious clickbait is someone who is genuinely pissed off (on principle) and expressing himself on his blog. Just a theory.
Besides, if this is clickbait, what are you even doing here? Surely you’re savvy enough to avoid the supposed bait at this point and you certainly don’t want to support insidious clickbait by participating here? Do you just simply enjoy being unhappy and whining about it?
This is just sensationalist journalism, as is becoming more and more typical of boingboing in general and doctorow in particular.
But, anyway… I’ve got a suggestion, stop derailing this thread and start an exciting, new BBS thread on how much your topic upsets you. This thread’s topic is about DRM in Firefox and the principles of the Mozilla Foundation, not your esoteric criticisms of the Boing Boing format and your assumptions of bad faith in Cory and Boing Boing in general.
