Post by Moonchild » 2017-03-23, 22:26

That survey was sent out yesterday and member organizations, who pay an annual fee that varies from $2,250 for the smallest non-profits to $77,000 for larger corporations, will have until April 19 to register their opinions.

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There is little opportunity for those bitterly opposed to the measure to stir up a grassroots campaign against the spec, due to the entry barriers for W3C membership and the fact that only members can vote on approval.

We saw that coming 2 years ago. Google wins.Doesn't mean that people are forced to implement it; even though a standard status it's still controversial.The W3C is a puppet of their paying members, and the vote for EME depends only on what their members vote for, most of whom will benefit from more than a handful of these "new standards", since they are likely members for commercial reasons if they hand over thousands of dollars a year to them:Needless to say, Pale Moon is not a member. I have better ways to spend such an annual "fee". The internet community at large will have no influence on this or any other decision on a "standard" that gets crafted by monolithic corps for their own benefit and then pushed through to apply to everything on the web (including the many FOSS and non-profits that aren't members).Look up W3C drafts, and check how many have someone or multiple people from Google writing/editing it. You'll see how these W3C standards are more about corporations enforcing their influence by making "official standards" out of what they prefer, than actually creating net-neutral directives like they used to., sorry.