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

reddit.stuehieyr.com/r/Fedora/…

#tech #foss #patents #fedora

#foss #tech #fedora #patents
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@tcit And guess what I’m writing you this on… :)
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Jan Wildeboer 😷
Jan Wildeboer 😷
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mesa has disabled it. Fedora follows upstream. As explained in the link.
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Pixelcode 🇺🇦
Pixelcode 🇺🇦
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@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
Jiří Eischmann
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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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