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FirefoxOS-Based Matchstick Project Ends; All Money To Be Refunded

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

Kohenkatz writes: Matchstick, a project built on FirefoxOS that aimed to compete with Google's Chromecast, which was initially funded on Kickstarter, is shutting down and will be refunding all pledges. In a post to Kickstarter backers today, they announced that this decision was due to the difficulty of implementing the DRM components that are necessary for access to a lot of paid content. Rather than drag out the project on an unknown schedule, they have decided to end the project.

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  1. Re:Kickstarter refunds? by moronoxyd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually: Not that nice at all.

    The original plan was to release a Matchstick without DRM support. That version was ready to go in production and that was the version that the Kickstarter backers pledged to support.

    But some months in, when the original product should already have been in production, Matchstick decided to revise their plans and to redesign the hardware to support DRM. So the backers where told that they would receive a different product then originally announced at a later date.

    This was when I decided to get out and asked for my money back.
    Todays announcement shows me I was right.

    Matchstick should have stayed with their original plan and added DRM vor version 2.