Comment by bayindirh

While an individual license is 25¢ [0], $25MM is a somewhat sizeable amount of money for any company.

However, I'd personally accept to be able to buy my own license and enable the hardware a-la Raspberry Pi fashion.

Moreover, this is done on more expensive, business notebooks as well, which are both more expensive and used by the people who knows about this stuff.

The executives who made these decisions are not the most informed or the most brilliant, I assume.

[0]: https://via-la.com/licensing-programs/hevc-vvc/#license-fees