> Oh I'm sure this royalty free h264 binary blob offering from MPEG LA was due to the kindness of their hearts.
That's not from MPEG LA to us. That is from Cisco to everyone who wants to use a blog, and it's permitted by the licensing, just the same as Flash today can be downloaded from Adobe as a binary blob and neither I (as a user) nor Mozilla needs to pay MPEG LA.
I still see lots of anger, as well as confusion. Anger leads to the dark side.
A hopeful sign, kind of: you started with "betrayal" (Harold Pinter play!) and now you are faulting Mozilla for being confused, or for not reforming All The Things instantly. A bit of a climb-down -- just sayin'.
Please note that we don't like any of the bad patent-pooling, rent-seeking behavior either. Failing to overcome it all at once, finding an incremental path to what we believe will be a better future, not throwing ourselves on all the swords, is part of how Mozilla operates. If you want purity, there are prefs you can set and add-ons you can install in Firefox. If that's not pure enough because you have to set prefs or use add-ons, there are tiny share browsers you can use instead.
I'm not saying "there's the door", rather I'm explicitly reaffirming that Mozilla does not consider every bad reality imposed on competitive browsers to be a make-or-break principle test (Monty made it sound like that; Mitchell and I do not agree), which we can pass only by rejecting reality and therefore very likely shrinking to tiny market share.
That's not from MPEG LA to us. That is from Cisco to everyone who wants to use a blog, and it's permitted by the licensing, just the same as Flash today can be downloaded from Adobe as a binary blob and neither I (as a user) nor Mozilla needs to pay MPEG LA.
I still see lots of anger, as well as confusion. Anger leads to the dark side.
A hopeful sign, kind of: you started with "betrayal" (Harold Pinter play!) and now you are faulting Mozilla for being confused, or for not reforming All The Things instantly. A bit of a climb-down -- just sayin'.
Please note that we don't like any of the bad patent-pooling, rent-seeking behavior either. Failing to overcome it all at once, finding an incremental path to what we believe will be a better future, not throwing ourselves on all the swords, is part of how Mozilla operates. If you want purity, there are prefs you can set and add-ons you can install in Firefox. If that's not pure enough because you have to set prefs or use add-ons, there are tiny share browsers you can use instead.
I'm not saying "there's the door", rather I'm explicitly reaffirming that Mozilla does not consider every bad reality imposed on competitive browsers to be a make-or-break principle test (Monty made it sound like that; Mitchell and I do not agree), which we can pass only by rejecting reality and therefore very likely shrinking to tiny market share.
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