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		fafner on Feb 7, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the we... So you'd rather give up on the open web and turn it into a proprietary system? Just for a seamless experience? Sorry to say this. But that's just plain stupid. The web is not proprietary, not an app, and only to some extend controlled by the w3c, which is much more than Microsoft, Google, and Apple.

robmcm on Feb 10, 2014 [–]

> The web is not proprietary, not an app, and only to some extend controlled by the w3c, which is much more than Microsoft, Google, and Apple.

Well lets see if DRM makes it into HTML5 then.

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