Standards Gate Linux HDMI Support

Standards bodies can function as de facto gatekeepers for open‑source hardware support: when the HDMI Forum labeled an open implementation proprietary and blocked it, Linux users and developers were forced into vendor‑centric compliance paths. AMD's kernel patch for HDMI 2.1 FRL shows vendors may implement support themselves, but only after compliance testing and with proprietary constraints delaying or shaping what arrives on Linux. — This matters because standards governance decisions can determine whether open platforms like Linux get timely, fully open support for modern hardware, affecting competition, user choice, and who controls interoperability.