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Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by open source driver issues.

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[–] who@feddit.org 160 points 1 week ago (22 children)

the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How, though? I'm not terribly knowledgeable about the law, but I know interoperability is one of the major sources of exceptions to copyright protection, and the whole Google vs Oracle saga would imply there's nothing illegal about making your own implementation of a standard without permission.

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

AMD is a member of the HDMI consortium and is probably bound by private agreements to not make open source drivers without permission from the consortium. They did try to get them to budge but they didn't.

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