Apparently the Raspberry Pi camera has a DRM chip in it to stop anyone else from designing or producing third party cameras. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=149426 … WTF‽ I think I'm going to start calling it the Raspberry iPi. Why the hell is this garbage in an *educational* product?
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Replying to @marcan42
You must not know that they gpu in it is locked, do you need top pay extra top unlock hardware acceleration
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Replying to @samuelmovi
I do, but there's actually a reason for that outside of their control (codec patents requiring license fees), so I understand why. This I don't understand.
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Replying to @marcan42 @samuelmovi
Correct me if I'm wrong but codec patents don't apply in the EU?
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Replying to @Norro21 @samuelmovi
Of course they do. Heck, e.g. Fraunhofer Institute is German (MP3/AAC patents).
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Replying to @marcan42 @samuelmovi
(When I say 'correct me if I'm wrong' I am asking for some evidence backed learning not a restatement of unfounded opinion.)
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I guess the tens of thousands of software patents issued by the EPO are all for show then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention#Statistics … Software patents are complicated and controversial but we definitely don't live in a world where we can say they don't exist/apply in the EU (sadly).
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Replying to @marcan42 @samuelmovi
But are they enforceable? If you look at all the example cases on pages like that and similar they were all ruled on other grounds.
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