Or alternatively, you're like a Microsoft devtools user circa 2000, wondering what crazies would use something besides windows/asp.net for their web stack, since in the "real world", no one cares about that crappy free software stuff, they just want stuff to work, and don't care about theoretical lock-in to a slow-moving company, don't care about being unable to modify/improve/adapt their own tools, etc.
You don't care about "free software purity", but we're not talking about "impure" open-source software. The EME module is completely closed source, trade secret, subject to opaque negotiations between large private companies. It is in fact quite pragmatic to have a problem with it. If you want to put a browser on a sufficiently different platform, it won't be able to play most of the videos on the web, if EME becomes popular. Or, if there's enough resistance to it, and DRM on video eventually goes the way of DRM on audio (i.e. goes away), you'll have put a bunch of effort and contracts and such into something that only holds you back from offering the best experience (whether you make websites or client platforms).
All that said, I suppose it is better that the DRM is relegated to the smallest possible piece, and delivery, decoding, and presentation are possibly open to improvement by the client platforms.
You don't care about "free software purity", but we're not talking about "impure" open-source software. The EME module is completely closed source, trade secret, subject to opaque negotiations between large private companies. It is in fact quite pragmatic to have a problem with it. If you want to put a browser on a sufficiently different platform, it won't be able to play most of the videos on the web, if EME becomes popular. Or, if there's enough resistance to it, and DRM on video eventually goes the way of DRM on audio (i.e. goes away), you'll have put a bunch of effort and contracts and such into something that only holds you back from offering the best experience (whether you make websites or client platforms).
All that said, I suppose it is better that the DRM is relegated to the smallest possible piece, and delivery, decoding, and presentation are possibly open to improvement by the client platforms.