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I don't think it's that simple. Just suppose Mozilla had decided to stand up against DRM, once again. What would have happened?

Ultimately, Google, Microsoft, Apple and consorts wouldn't have cared and would have stopped trying to properly work on Firefox, and their sites would only work on Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer... Firefox would be left out.

When Baker says "Mozilla cannot change the industry on DRM at this point.", I think they are right. For years, Firefox usage has slowly but constantly declined since mid-2009 and is now around 25% of the Internet traffic, according to w3schools. Firefox is not the biggest player anymore, Chrome is.

Sure, 25% is still a thing. However, if Youtube or Netflix stopped being compatible with Firefox tomorrow, most people would stop using it. It's not the other way round: too few users care enough about an Open Web to boycott such huge services.

Unfortunately, because Firefox isn't the main actor anymore means that standing up alone against DRM wouldn't have as much power as it would have if they still represented more than 40% of the traffic and were the biggest browser. Had they tried that today, they'd have probably died in the end.

And I think Firefox's survival is more important than a completely DRM-free Internet, which already wasn't DRM-free anyway: think about Flash Player... Even with the rise of HTML5, many popular websites are still using it. And are you really boycotting it?

Well, maybe you are. But still, people with a completely anti-DRM stance are but a small fraction of Internet users nowadays. Because they know that, they can't afford at Mozilla to just deprive the average user from their daily Youtube/Netflix and only keep among their users those rare people that are ready to completely boycott those services.

Arthur {l Wrote}:Actually, the more important question would be: what would we replace it with? We've never been free software purists, and unless we have to replace something quickly because it turns out we can't use it under a CC license, we don't replace art unless we have something even better ready.

So until we see a better replacement, I really doubt there is much to discuss here.

charlie {l Wrote}:I thought Sara was an STK character.

Wuzzy {l Wrote}:Not really serious compromise idea: Make all “evil” mascots antagonists in story mode because they teamed up with Nolok and went to the dark side.

GreenLunar {l Wrote}:For an easy fix, I suggest to color the current bird to green (instead of blue) and announce it is the KMess bird.

KMess
http://kmess.org/