Important! H.264? The successor is H.265.
- But, the future is not so clear as is the case with H.264. There are concerns over patent royalties and quite a number of alternatives currently (2018) available.
20180414/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
20180414/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
20180414/DuckDuckGo mpeg-2 raspberry pi patent expire
Old news, I think this is the same thing I saw about libre boot of Raspberry Pi.
20180414/https://hackaday.com/2017/01/14/blob-less-raspberry-pi-linux-is-a-step-closer/
Interesting. Space garbage trucks. Robotic tools to track space junk is curiously a “challenge” to track a non-communicating object.
20180414/https://hackaday.com/2018/04/09/a-look-at-the-uks-new-space-garbage-truck/
Interesting but not quite related. A computationally powerful alternative to Raspberry Pi.
20180414/https://hackaday.com/2016/03/16/hands-on-with-the-odroid-c2-the-raspberry-pi-3-challenger/
Important! Again, I reiterate, because this is important! The importance of patent expiration in growing the market share of a tool or technology.
It might seem extreme, but the claim isn’t without evidence. After the expiration of the patent for fused deposition modeling (FDM), an enormous open source movement appeared almost overnight. What had once been a corporate oddity became a popular DIY project, and companies arose to cater to a whole new market: the enthusiast 3D printing customer. These rickety, (relatively) low-fidelity printers found great traction with the Arduino and Raspberry Pi crowd, and their success has led directly to the low-cost, mid-range printers available today.
The SLS patent expired, but the market growth is less clear than in the case of FDM. And by all means of 2018, those predictions turned out to be correct.
20180414/https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175562-major-patent-expiration-could-spark-a-second-3d-printing-revolution