The disabling of hardware codecs in community distributions

Posted Oct 18, 2022 20:34 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The disabling of hardware codecs in community distributions by Wol
Parent article: The disabling of hardware codecs in community distributions

> I may be muddling up my stories, but I think it's this one, it IS the classic case of a lone researcher burning themselves out both emotionally and financially, and the vultures pile in once they realise it does actually have potential ...

The story is a _bit_ exaggerated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3#Career

You also might note that without being able to patent stuff, her career would have been impossible.