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If windows would be free, would they have to pay? Also how is Mac doing it or Linux?
by number6 4y ago
If windows would be free, would they have to pay? Also how is Mac doing it or Linux?
- HidyBush 4y agoApple pays in order to distribute the codec on their devices, and since hackintoshes are very uncommon and iOS can't be installed anywhere else they aren't worried about those rare cases. Also Linux has nothing to do with video codecs. Microsoft and Apple have to pay because they are based in the U.S. VLC claims to get away with it because they're in France but the situation is not totally clear.
- TingPing 4y agoNo being free doesn't help them. Linux is distro dependent but generally it's not distributed by any large US company. Community projects play loose with using patented software. Apple surely licenses it.