Posted by gouessej on May 16, 2014; 9:55am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Mozilla-DRM-and-removing-plugin-tp4032354p4032356.html

Hi

I'm not surprised by Mozilla's move, going closer to corporations and going away from end users who care about freedom:

I don't think we will ship with *any* plugins
and will not offer any way for plugins to be installed into the OS.

Anything that is in a plugin is not "the Open Web", as a plugin is a
proprietary backbox inside the web page.

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.b2g/browse_thread/thread/fe2b44dee98274f7#

Mozilla seems to consider that a closed source Adobe plugin is a part of the Open Web but a plugin based on an open source project (OpenJDK) without the support of the film industry is considered as an intruder in the Open Web. It seems to show that the definition of the Open Web depends on the interest of private corporations and has nothing to do with the rights and the freedoms of the end users.