Pretty sure they just include it to get fewer returns (“My computer doesn’t play videos!”) and Acer and Asus here opted to do it without paying the license fee.
Some manufacturers do include far more nefarious shit though. You’re right there. I don’t know who includes what these days, last Windows laptop I bought was a dv6-2000 series HP Pavilion. That was horrific before a clean install of Windows 7, and then slightly later, a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, my first foray into Linux :)
Now I wish I could put new internals in the ol’ HP and it’s probably possible with a tiny SBC, but I think I threw it away because it was half-molten anyway. Loved the “Espresso” design.
If it’s free, you’re the product.
So AV1 is not free?
AV1 isn’t a paid product being given away for free.
Pretty sure they just include it to get fewer returns (“My computer doesn’t play videos!”) and Acer and Asus here opted to do it without paying the license fee.
Some manufacturers do include far more nefarious shit though. You’re right there. I don’t know who includes what these days, last Windows laptop I bought was a dv6-2000 series HP Pavilion. That was horrific before a clean install of Windows 7, and then slightly later, a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, my first foray into Linux :)
Now I wish I could put new internals in the ol’ HP and it’s probably possible with a tiny SBC, but I think I threw it away because it was half-molten anyway. Loved the “Espresso” design.