Brooke Vibber 
Dolby is why we can't have anything nice
BAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOREVER IT SUCKS
Lucas Werkmeister@brooke isn’t there a clause somewhere that now prevents Dolby from using AV1 (on the basis of everyone else’s patent grants that forbid you from bringing such a lawsuit)? or am I misremembering stuff
@LucasWerkmeister yes and presumably Dolby is fine with that
@brooke damn them
@LucasWerkmeister tbf, "if you sue us we terminate all your rights" is kind of a dick move from anybody; sometimes people have legitimate rights they deserve to enforce
i mean in this case it's dolby being dicks but you know ;)
@brooke eh, to me it sounds like a reasonable deterrence hack in a legal landscape where seemingly anyone can pop up with a new patent claim at any time to jeopardize huge software projects
(of course the better solution would be to raze that legal landscape ^^)
@LucasWerkmeister mutually assured destruction is an effective deterrent only until one side realizes they won't be destroyed :)