29 Sep
2022
29 Sep
'22
1:11 p.m.
Lack of legal action is not evidence of no further legal action. There are multiple possible explanations:
- they see no point because going after distros would waste time and money and bring bad
PR
- going after Redhat who would assume liability is a different story as they’re a Fortune
500 company
- they or some other company (through merger or acquisition) may suddenly decide to patent
troll
That and the Streisand effect makes this accident more public which draws attention and scrutiny.
I think the hardware vendors shipping fedora should be concerned about the patents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Provision_for_cos...