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@fl0_id "But some people would not have used Firefox" is exactly the argument for market share over principles that got us into this mess.

22 June at 20:28 | Open on mastodon.social
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Florian Idelberger

@jwz not ‘some people’ but basically no one would have used it. I don’t disagree that it (engaging with market realities) is also a problem, but that does not mean that the opposite would have been better

22 June at 20:30 | Open on mastodon.social
jwz
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@jwz @fl0_id How much influence does Pale Moon have?

I do agree that Mozilla should have shown at least some opposition to EME becoming a W3C standard, but market share is very, very important.

22 June at 22:12 | Open on social.restless.systems
PuercoPop

@fl0_id @jwz there were and are a multiple people that would have used Firefox if they took a stance against DRM. Those that care about the open web. You know their _mission_. If you can't see how supporting drm means abandonding their mission then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. This isnt even a one step back two forward strategy. Its not like they implemented DRM as part of a larger plan to provide a non DRMed alternative

22 June at 20:53 | Open on mastodon.social
Florian Idelberger

@PuercoPop @jwz I'm not saying there weren't, just overall not many. I don't like drm either, I just think that often you have to balance principles against usability, market forces and all kinds of other things. open web proponents and similar are very bad at this, and always think their priorities are most important.

22 June at 22:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Von Xylofon

@jwz @fl0_id I am genuinely curious how you plan to influence the web from a position of a browser that has a user base that is equal to a rounding error.

Insistence on not compromising brought us the magnificent thing that was Adobe Flash. No, thanks.

22 June at 20:56 | Open on witter.cz
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