After Everything Openh264 Now

No one will remember why it was needed. No ticket, no Slack thread, no RFC. Just a checksum and a vague memory: "We had to ship something that played video on those old Chinese phones."

After the patents expire and the lawyers go home, after the build pipelines are decommissioned, after the last browser telemetry ping reports codec not found — after everything openh264

And somewhere, in a forgotten Dockerfile , a RUN wget command will point to a 404. The build will fail at 3 AM. Some on-call engineer will sigh, comment out the layer, and push a fix titled "remove openh264, nobody uses that format anymore." No one will remember why it was needed