If a nation-state wants to cripple a rival’s tech sector, they don’t drop bombs on server farms. They file lawsuits over video codecs. By distributing OpenH264, Cisco effectively "armed" every developer with a legal shield. If a rival company tries to build a competing video service using unlicensed code, Cisco can deploy OpenH264 as a counter-weapon—forcing the competition to either use Cisco’s free library (and thus rely on US infrastructure) or face crippling patent lawsuits.
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