As long as you follow the GPL license you can redistribute it, for free or at cost. Linux is mostly free as in freedom and usually free as in free beer.

Wikipedia says ElementaryOS has a pay what you want model. So if your image is from them then you don’t have to pay (a 3rd party is free to charge you for it - bandwidth ain’t free).

AMD made an open source driver for HDMI 2.1 but HDMI forum won’t approve. They locked down the specification for 2.1 and say the driver would reveal it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/hdmi-forum-open-source-drivers-hdmi-2-1/

I don’t know if an earlier version can do 8k@60HD.

As long as good actors can still do good work in a fork of Linux then hopefully it’s resistant to corporate vultures.

Communication is difficult. I felt like I gave a useful answer but evidentially it was not an answer for you. I hope someone else can answer your questions.

Has a software update ever changed something in a way you dislike? When it’s proprietary software your choices are to:

• tolerate the anti-feature
• downgrade and keep using an older version instead (if feasible also has demerits)
• hope someone reverse engineers a work-around
• stop using the software

When the software is free (libre) then a communities can change it (e.g. removing an anti-feature) via the source code.

Sadly it’s not enough to simply “then don’t use it” - proprietary software proliferates society (interacting socially, with the government, with banks, etc). Since it’s better to be in control of your own computing anyway then might as well promote the values of software freedom.

thanks!

Is there any merit to the claim OBS is using an end-of-life (EOL) runtime and that this is a very bad thing for security?

Small teams are unable to take web browsers far in another direction as browsers have recklessly grown to one of the largest and most complicated software. Browsers do not follow the “do one thing well” philosophy, to the extreme.

Most functional parts of a browser (text reader, video player) are thankfully resistant to enshitification. That is if they are free (libre), permitting a fork.