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

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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

The HDMI Forum blocks open source implementations of their spec. They want to keep it closed source so they can charge whatever they want to use their standards.

Big content creators (Disney, Netflix, etc) want TV manufacturers to keep using HDMI because the standard includes a DRM protocol.