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They don't have to. Ship a crippled version of libavcodec so I can replace it. Or in the glorious linux case: link to a system version of libavcodec. Or just
by J_Darnley 13y ago
They don't have to. Ship a crippled version of libavcodec so I can replace it. Or in the glorious linux case: link to a system version of libavcodec.
Or just get some balls and ship like you are Videolan.
- fpgeek 13y agoUnlike VideoLAN, Mozilla has a big, obvious income stream for H.264 patent-holders to go after. Mozilla, quite reasonably, thinks they should spend that income advancing their mission rather than paying off patent holders (in a way that undermines it). They're also, again unlike VideoLAN, headquartered in a very, very software-patent-friendly jurisdiction. Mozilla isn't refusing to ship H.264 because they lack "balls". They're refusing because there are serious practical constraints that get in the way.