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Stephen Downes

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As the world continues to converge on the One True OSS Browser that is Google's Chromium, this article serves as an important warning about a poison pill that is being added to the mix. To play protected content such as Netflix videos or PlayStation games, you need a DRM solution such as Google's Wildvine - in fact, Wildvine is the only solution for Chromium. But if you're actually building an open source browser based on Chromium, you can't use Wildvine. "Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won't allow DRM in an open source project." Buyer beware. More on Hacker News. (P.S. the synchronized browser called Metasteam Maddock is building in Electron looks pretty interesting.)

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