Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 18, 2014 @08:00AM from the let-the-flamewar-begin dept.

JimLynch (684194) writes "Mozilla has been in the news quite a lot over the last few months. This time the organization is being hammered by open source advocates for adding Adobe DRM to Firefox. But did the folks at Mozilla really have a choice when it comes adding DRM? An open source project like Mozilla is not immune to market pressures. And with so many competing browsers such as Chrome adding DRM for Netflix, etc. how could Firefox avoid adding it? Is it realistic to think that Firefox can simply ignore such things? I don't think so and the reason why is in Firefox's usage numbers over the last few years."

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Re:Not denying something is different from forcing by gbjbaanb · 2014-05-18 09:06 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Did he criticise Chrome when it put DRM in?
No.. then he can stfu. Why is this news now Firefox is implementing the standard that everyone else supports?!
Re: Not denying something is different from forcin by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-18 09:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"Those of you that live and work in the real world enabled the holocaust"
From a Jew: Fuck you, asshole.