Debian status

Unfortunately, when patent trolls are so well funded, and the regulators do not care, there is little alternative to selective buying to make the trolls understand patenting games are not worth the effort. I’d rather give Fedora or Debian money but if you care about video codecs you need to finance the guys that actually deploy commercial alternatives (ie not Apple). The only thing patent trolls will understand is loss of market share.

And the “good” guys are not so good and they also indulge in patenting so you also need to read the spec sheets to make sure their device is actually AV1-oriented.