• @Whom@beehaw.orgOP
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    21 year ago

    I’m curious what other distros will do in the near future. Some say that those not US-based won’t have to care, while others say it’ll likely spread far and wide. I’ve no idea, I just hope the alternative solutions come quickly. Installing custom-built mesa will be good enough for now but it appears that Fedora developers are not satisfied with leaving it at this and returning to the awful patent situations Linux had to deal with in the past, so I’m sure there will be something like separating it out from mesa to make it easier to distribute for RPMfusion or the like. I don’t know, but I trust it’ll be okay.

    Portions of the userbase are absolutely panicking and hopping to other distros. I certainly think this is going to be a problem for accessibility in the short term and that the extra setup step this’ll add will be a damn shame, but it’s probably more work to hop than to just use mesa as provided by others.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair to the hoppers, though, I think “I don’t want a distro so bound to US law” is a perfectly good reason to hop and isn’t something I thought about much before. It’ll be interesting seeing how this impacts other distros and what it says about their legal situations. Once that and the plan for workarounds are clear, I’ll maybe then consider it. But those are mostly ideological concerns…I dealt with the codec situation on late 2000s Linux, I can deal with this, lol.

      • @hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
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        21 year ago

        They will probably just follow along? All big ones won’t risky it, and small ones have no rescue as well

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          31 year ago

          It’s unclear if they’ll distribute it, as with how it currently works that would require them distributing mesa in its entirety and they don’t seem interested. Could change though.