I blame the OSS community that rolled out the red carpet for DRM. They are the only ones who really had a choice to make. I frankly don't blame the corporations pushing this, because they have been trying the whole time.
And they did it for the worst reasons. Vanity and pride. The corporations pushing DRM are merely motivated by greed.
But the players in the OSS community that opened the door for DRM were TERRIFIED of being labeled as "obsolete" or losing pretend "market share". They refused to take a stand against DRM, if it meant losing any users. Just look at the discussion thread where Mozilla decided to support DRM.
The arguments in favor of DRM by the OSS community are always the same:
- We need to support terrible DRM because it is popular (and being numerically popular is super important).
- We need to compromise against our users because if we don't then we won't have any leverage (which we are conceding we don't have anyway)
- "marketshare"
- "integrated branding"(?)
None of this makes sense, because Google, Apple, and Microsoft have completely different goals with building for-profit forms.
People who speak in slimey business sales marketing speak are making decisions about the direction of OSS software. And these people are obsessed with cargo-culting the big commercial platforms.
And they did it for the worst reasons. Vanity and pride. The corporations pushing DRM are merely motivated by greed.
But the players in the OSS community that opened the door for DRM were TERRIFIED of being labeled as "obsolete" or losing pretend "market share". They refused to take a stand against DRM, if it meant losing any users. Just look at the discussion thread where Mozilla decided to support DRM.
The arguments in favor of DRM by the OSS community are always the same: - We need to support terrible DRM because it is popular (and being numerically popular is super important). - We need to compromise against our users because if we don't then we won't have any leverage (which we are conceding we don't have anyway) - "marketshare" - "integrated branding"(?)
None of this makes sense, because Google, Apple, and Microsoft have completely different goals with building for-profit forms.
People who speak in slimey business sales marketing speak are making decisions about the direction of OSS software. And these people are obsessed with cargo-culting the big commercial platforms.