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		chimeracoder on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and the W3C EME I'm wondering this as well - why can it not be implemented (from the browser perspective) as a plugin that is downloaded upon first use? Isn't this what Iceweasel on Debian will have to do anyway, since Debian cannot ship non-free software in their main repositories?

mbrubeck on May 14, 2014 [–]

Yes, it will be a plugin that is downloaded on first use. That's exactly what the blog post describes.

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