Mozilla had no choice but to add DRM to Firefox
Found on Jim Lynch on Sunday, 18 May 2014
Mozilla has been in the news quite a lot over the last few months. This time the organization is being hammered by open source advocates for adding Adobe DRM to Firefox.
An open source project like Mozilla is not immune to market pressures. And with so many competing browsers such as Chrome adding DRM for Netflix, etc. how could Firefox avoid adding it?
So what choice did Mozilla really have except to follow in the footsteps of Chrome? I’d argue that it really didn’t have any choice.
That is the biggest part of the problem: Firefox keeps on copying Chrome, so naturally at some point users will pick the original instead of the copy. Years ago, Firefox got it's userbase because it was clean and lightweight, without all the ballast Netscape and IE had. Today Mozilla isn't leading the browser development, it's just following.