I still do not understand why they don't it makes their hardware basically good for life, since now you can run it on any OS if you really want to put the effort in to wire it all up.

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dcan 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Patents and licensing, usually

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543291

	▲	giancarlostoro 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah so HDMI is one part of it, that's really unfortunate. Thank you for this insight.

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andy_ppp 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's tragic that the patent system, that is meant to make sharing IP better, actually is used to extract rents from the everyone... Software patents much like maths should clearly be illegal.