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Hello.
I am doing some research on software patents and how they inhibit businesses in the US from using FOSS.
My question is, basically, what would a business have to do in the US to use Linux in place of Windows/Mac and make sure they are not violating software patents? Violating these patents (for example, including an illegal H.264 codec in a company's system image so that video can be played by employees) present a serious liability to US businesses and could potentially discourage them from abandoning a proprietary OS for a free one.
One portion (of many) of this discussion I do not understand is how does one guarantee their system is clean of illegal codecs? For example, assume if one used his/her package manager to delete any codec-related packages he/she could find. If this person used a web browser to navigate to a website that included in-page H.264 videos or sound effects encoded using MP3, would this content merely not function (meaning, the person would be legally safe but unable to play the content)? Or do web browsers have these illegal codecs built in? I don't understand how website programming works enough to know the answer to this particular question.
I would appreciate any insight on this issue (and/or any thoughts you might have on this subject).
Thank you for your time.

See distro's to avoid here if you are in the US:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
And, linked from that page, see ones that should be safer:
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
With Parbola:
https://parabolagnulinux.org/
Being Free and based on Arch.
Now, the problem, completely free is very picky about the hardware it will run on so you will want to procure hardware specifically built to run under a Free system without issues. Licensed distributables you can get away with using, for example: Adobe Flash Player. Just accept the license agreement and you should be good to go. The minefield is that somewhere in even the Free code there could be a patent lying in wait. Something that someone in the US patented and the Free systems programmers were not aware of it. This is an issue in the US because commercial Operating Systems such as Windows will indemnify their users against patent infringement. On Free systems however you, the business using them, could end up being on the hook for significant damages.
The reason a completely Free system is very picky about what hardware it will run on is because all those binary blobs in common Linux distributions contain code that just makes stuff work. Without that you have to make absolutely sure that what you have will work with just Free software.
See:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting- … tents.html
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