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		binkHN 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for ... Post the patch in a country that doesn't care? I remember OpenBSD used to do something similar with encryption to get around US laws.

rtpg 73 days ago [–]

I think Canonical did this with codecs for a long time too, behind a prompt

extraduder_ire 73 days ago | [–]

Linux mint didn't need to ask due to being released from France, where software patents did not apply.

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