[$] Fedora, FFmpeg, Firefox, Flatpak, and Fusion

Fedora's objective to become the desktop Linux distribution of choice haslong been hampered by Red Hat's risk-averse legal department, whichstrictly limits the type of software that Fedora can ship. Specifically,anything that might be encumbered by patents is off-limits, with the resultthat much of the media that users might find on the net is unplayable. Thissituation has improved over the years as the result of a lot of work withinthe Fedora project, but it still puts Fedora at a disadvantage relative tosome other distributions. A recentdiscussion on video support, though, shines a light on how some surprisinglegal reasoning may be providing a way out of this problem; that waymay not be pleasing to all involved, however.