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Re: Iceweasel and DRM

On 18/05/14 08:42 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

On 5/15/14, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jo, 15 mai 14, 00:27:08, Gary Dale wrote:

I disagree. Browser support for DRM makes it easier for people to provide
content that uses DRM. After all, if every browser supports it, why not
use it?

Debian is based on freedom. Iceweasel exists because Firefox contained
proprietary parts.

Iceweasel exists because the trademark policy for Firefox requires all
changes to the browser to be approved my the Mozilla Corporation and
this conflicts with Debian's usual security support strategy for stable.

Lately Mozilla has been providing the ESR and Debian has been upgrading
iceweasel in wheezy via the security archive. I'd say there are chances
that Jessie releases with Firefox instead of Iceweasel.


To not remove digital restrictions support undermines a
major strength of Debian. If people want DRM, they can always download
Firefox but they should have a choice for freedom.

There is no need to remove *support* for DRM, as long as it is Free
Software (according to Debian's definition). Whether to use it (or not)
must be the choice of the user.

Freedom 0 (zero) if I remember rightly - the freedom to use for any purpose.

I guess the problem is education - most people click "yes, do
everything you possibly can to allow me to watch this popular thing
NOW and don't even THINK about making me think about concepts or
anything I want to be _entertained_ only".

So Gary, how do we handle this problem of lack of educated thinkers?
Cause that's the real problem as I see it.

Regards
Zenaan
That problem is not solvable, I'm afraid. That's why people who do think about issues have a duty to speak up about them. Stallman's GPL is a case in point. A work of true genius, it tries to keep things free.
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