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_...