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To support EME on linux, they need to create an EME plugin for linux. Leaks in that plugin would kinda break DRM, so it needs to be designed well.

Writing and maintaing a crypto plugin is quite expensive.

That plugin is called widevine and it's been shipped with chrome for Linux for a year or more. It's already done. They don't need to do anything.

wouldn't it be Google or Adobe who would write the plugin?

its not like they lack the developers or the such