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[chithanh]

It's probably not feasible to "extinguish" Linux as a whole, as its grasp on many markets is too firm to get rid of it.

However...

[chithanh]

I mean both the historical definition, and the 2012 common definition of IEEE, ISOC, W3C, IETF and IAB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_stan...

[chithanh]

H.264/HEVC may be patent encumbered, but it is controlled by a standards body (a joint working group of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG) with fair and non-discriminatory...

[chithanh]

I think it is rather because something like AOMedia exists at all now. VP9 was a standard that was entirely controlled by Google, and there was no real...

[chithanh]

I was there when Microsoft had a booth at LinuxTag (2013?), across our Gentoo booth (shared with SchilliX) and next to ReactOS.

Turns out...

[chithanh]

Both screen and tmux are feature-bloated and carry lots of extra functions that most people don't want or need. For console scrollback, dvtm will be just...

[chithanh]

The older videos are encoded H.264 and can remain that way.
Do note that "MPEG" and "MPEG LA" are two entirely different organizations....

[chithanh]

It gets even worse since Unicode 5.1 introduced ẞ (U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S) so you have to add MAẞE to the list.

ẞ has...