Oh my god, I've been dealing wih his shit for so long. Can't even use video conferencing websites on firefox - firefox uses openh264 too.
If anyone has a workaround to install this without involving CISCO pleeeeaaaaaaase let me know
Are you using rpmfusion?
I'm on Linux Mint, not Fedora.
Me as a Fedora hater: runs pacman -Syu
its only an issue if people dont use the codecs out of rpmfusion, the fedora adjacent nonfree repos
Doesn't sound like a very good excuse to me.
take it up with software patents I guess
Wait, why do they need Cisco involved to publish this update?
Cisco owns the rights
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