Now that #Dolby has launched a #patent lawsuit over #AV1, unless I'm mistaken we're about to have a repeat of the #Unisys #GIF patent situation where all #browsers must remove support for widely-us...
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Sounds like a "fuck you make me" situation. Whom are they going to sue for opensource projects?
And in which country?
What if the one shipping that browser is in a country without an extradition treaty?
What big browser should do is probably add the plugin architecture back in. Firefox still has it for another codec that Cisco provided but chrome I think doesn't anymore.
Everything non-commercial will be fine. But everything with a company backing it behind it? well...
Sounds like a "fuck you make me" situation. Whom are they going to sue for opensource projects?
And in which country?
What if the one shipping that browser is in a country without an extradition treaty?
What big browser should do is probably add the plugin architecture back in. Firefox still has it for another codec that Cisco provided but chrome I think doesn't anymore.
Everything non-commercial will be fine. But everything with a company backing it behind it? well...
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