Does anyone have any actual technical data showing how this is different than watching Netflix through the Silverlight plugin?
This isn’t a technical issue for those who oppose this move by Mozilla. If you read the multiple statements linked by boing boing in several posts, they explain this in detail.
While I don’t fully agree with some of their points, I can at least respect their point of view that this is clearly a move that the Mozilla Foundation is doing against its own, stated principles.
There’s an awfully high level of histrionics over what seems to be, in the end, a plugin…
In the end, it’s really about principles for those who are against acceptance of this form of DRM in a self-professed open platform. And calling people melodramatic for standing up for their principles seems overly dismissive in my opinion.
I don’t necessarily agree with everyone who is against Mozilla’s decision, but I also don’t find the insulting need to claim they are being histrionic for standing against DRM and standing for principles.
