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#softwarepatents

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Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"

Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!"

Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a #Linux middleware & #softwarepatents problem."

Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"

Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."

Them: "DO NOT WANT"

Source: mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126

Continued thread

* I protested multiple times on the streets of Brussels as a teenager to prevent #softwarepatents in Europe, two decades later I was sued by a US patent troll company and was untouchable thanks to this.

* I joined an idealistic handful of geeks that had the crazy idea to make a new Linux distribution that's highly flexible and driven by source code. Now, #Gentoo Linux is one of the biggest independent distributions.

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