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by zozbot234 1459 days ago
How's that different from the Flash browser plugin? Widewine is every bit as proprietary as Flash.
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usrusr 1459 days ago
The w3c spec can be expected to put as small a subset of the client stack as possible into the black box, whereas a proprietary API would try to pull in as much as it can, aiming to eventually usurp the entire client. Remember silverlight?
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