I take it then that it didn't, and probably never would, occur to you that they might simply be conducting reconnaissance to see if an attack is feasible?

Because we must always assume the worst, and therefore we should overreact and assume a state of perpetual paranoia?

You do know that Al Qaida agents have been caught more than once doing that?

Really? Got anything to back that up?

May I assume then that you don't bother to check both ways before crossing the street since that would be "giving in to fear" of being hit by a car?

Ah yes, because driving oneself into a state of paranoia such that we must live in constant suspicion of our neighbors is equivalent to making no cars are traveling down the street.

perhaps drinking water from the toilet wouldn't bother you because you refuse to "live in fear" of disease? And insurance? Doesn't that just show you are living in fear of an accident? Apparently in your world, people don't do things that are prudent, they only act out of fear. Pity that.

You're completely fucking off base.

Nonsense.

Apple and Microsoft will happily comply. After all, they've already take away the end-user's control of their mobile devices.

Mockery does not counter the point that the MPL3 was chosen explicitly because it preserved the copyleft nature. Said same contributors may be unwilling to shift to the Apache license for precisely that reason.

Come back when you have a real response.

Of course this means that they're TERRORISTS out to kill people, and not just stupid people tresspassing.

The important thing here is that you adapt to the state of perpetual fear that you're supposed to live in.

How is Firefox on the decline? I use it on all of my primary systems and it's as snappy as ever. In fact it's so good that I find Chrome offers no advantages and lacks useful tools like Noscript.

I doubt they will be able to get them to go from the MPL3 to the Apache license. The transition from LGPL -> MPL3 maintained the copyleft nature of the license, going to Apache would eliminate it. I suspect it would be significantly more difficult to get people to agree to that.

You have a history of telling people what to do. How about you take the initiative and resolve the licensing conflicts between the two projects?

You should end the fork before it does even more harm.

Blame Oracle, they catalyzed the split.

how could you distinguish damage caused by Oracle from damage caused by the LibreOffice fork?

You can't. But it was Oracle's project to act on and they decided to be as uncooperative as possible, even more so than Sun. So LibreOffice was born and much progress was made in spite of Oracle. Then Oracle decided to dispense with it and carelessly tossed it aside to Apache.

Bush's administration wiretapped suspected terrorists.

Did they? We'll never know, because Congress moved to shield the collaborators from any sort of legal action.

Such as?

You don't have to alter the First Amendment. What you need to do is fix Corporate Law that explicitly identifies them as not being people. Then, you should grant corporations every right they have, rather than implicitly giving them every right that actual people have.

Entities whose existence is purely a result of government actions should not be able to pervert the course and actions of said same government. Otherwise you end up with the disaster we have now.

I didn't see the the part where they allow CDMs to be able to take over parts of the media stack as well as just decrypt.

I didn't see any restrictions whatsoever on CDMs. And they obviously can't allow the browser to touch uncompressed, decrypted data or someone will find a way to trivially dump it to disk.

that is still an improvement from not being able to run any CDM on OS/X or linux, ever because they don't implement COM which ActiveX relies on.

I thought about it a bit, and what I now expect to happen is that Apple, Google, and Microsoft will deliver CDMs for their platforms, and people will use them. Anyone not running Windows, iOS/OS X, or Android/Chrome OS will suddenly find the internet to be a very hostile place.

Unless the CDM hands off the actual decryption process to a lower level API like a TPM.

Except TPMs are horribly slow. There's a reason that Intel implemented AES in hardware.

Flash doesn't play content through the standard media elements

Oh so instead of using one tag you get to use another. Such a huge improvement. Not that any browser/OS other than those blessed by Hollywood will ever be able to use the tag at this rate.

I see you've decided to make these media companies an authority to which you appeal.

Unless you're a patent troll shell company, and price the licensing fees well below that of actually pursuing the court case.