Crisis of representation, again. As many including myself have observed, the voices of some members seem to carry more weight than others. In particular, more weight than the billions of people throughout the world who derive great benefit from the Open Web, with the W3C as its champion.
I'll grant you, things have been rocky in the past. The issue of patents required a very vocal public campaign to ensure the W3C remained true to its principles, and DRM is shaping up the same way. JF and others will tell you that it's a done deal. It isn't - at least no more than patents were a decade ago. They will smear their opponents as communists (I'm not), anti capitalists (ditto) or fantasists (this battle has been fought and won once before). -- Duncan Bayne ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: duncan_bayne I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours. If there's something urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me. -------- Original message -------- From: Jeff Jaffe <[email protected]> Date:09/01/2014 4:07 PM (GMT+10:30) To: Duncan Bayne <[email protected]>,[email protected] Subject: Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group On 1/8/2014 5:20 AM, Duncan Bayne wrote: >> I think I do. Now that the MPAA has officially joined the W3C[1], I >> can't find much optimism in me concerning the W3C. >> >> 1. >> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140107/11263425789/not-cool-mpaa-joins-w3c.shtml > Well, they're entitled to. Indeed. > After all, we can be sure that the W3C will > give weight to their argument that is proportional to the billions of > people who benefit from the Open Web. ??? > > *snort* >
