Aral Balkan

2 years ago

Aral Balkan
2 years ago

Oh great, looks like Fedora has lost hardware-accelerated video support BECAUSE PATENTS… ffs!

reddit.stuehieyr.com/r/Fedora/…

#tech #foss #patents #fedora

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Aral Balkan

Unknown parent 2 years ago

@tcit And guess what I’m writing you this on… :)

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

mesa has disabled it. Fedora follows upstream. As explained in the link.

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Aral Balkan

in reply to Jan Wildeboer 😷 2 years ago

@jwildeboer Yes, software patents do suck, I agree.

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@Jan Wildeboer 😷

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Pixelcode 🇺🇦

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

@jwildeboer “Software patents” are something that simply should not exist, and I have no clue why some Free Software advocates seem to support them.

@Jan Wildeboer 😷

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Jiří Eischmann

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

not major change in reality because to utilize the hardware acceleration you need ffmpeg which has never been available in Fedora because... guess why... yes, software patents.

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Ade Malsasa Akbar

in reply to Aral Balkan 2 years ago

Software Patents -- Obstacles to software development gnu.org/philosophy/software-pa…

This article, history it told, now truly repeating itself once again.

Software Patents - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

^www.gnu.org

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