Comment by bityard

Which is why these kinds of ultimatums NEED to be fought against, and aggressively. There ought to be NO room for any government to tell an open source project which features they must--or cannot--implement. Allowing this sort of thing is how you kill open source software. (Which may actually be their goal...)

But, if Mozilla wanted to acquiesce, they could release an EU-only version instead of weakening the trust/security of their browser for everyone.

Also, imagine the backlash that would happen if some part of the United States executive branch demanded the same thing the EU is demanding here.