#SoftwarePatents should be #illegal as they only exist to #profit #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers!
#SoftwarePatents should be #illegal as they only exist to #profit #ValueRemoving #RentSeekers!
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: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130
Great news,but...
Can I turn up more than one speaker at a time again yet?
Oh, wow, I see... Possibly
#SoftwarePatents #Patents #Google #Sonos
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23911491/google-home-grouping-features-now-available-sonos
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FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony - Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 8... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1932231 #freesoftwarefoundation #imagecompression #softwarepatents #googlechrome #imageformats #webstandards #compression #standards #chromium #firefox #mozilla #patents #biz #chrome #google #jpegxl #tech #fsf
* 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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