Comment on Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I feel like I’m missing something here. What do the manufacturers have to do with this, beyond perhaps including HEVC in advertising content? That’s on the GPU maker, AFAIK asus/acer practically purchase them from a catalog and build the rest around that size/shape
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe they’re including the unlicensed codec in their computers.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Ahh, if that’s the case, i have no sympathy for a fucking with a stock OS before handing it to the user. Nobody likes vendor bloatware
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Not even if it’s a free codec you’d normally have to pay for?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Id be questioning what else they changed that I don’t see