It was sad to read the thread where Jarek Duda introduces himself to the WebM codec developers group and suggests using Asymmetric Numeral Systems for VP9 / AV1

It was sad to read the thread where Jarek Duda introduces himself to the WebM codec developers group and suggests using Asymmetric Numeral Systems for VP9 / AV1. Then he notices patent applications about his algorithm and asks Google to help: "Maybe Google could help fighting with it?" It seems that Google helped by patenting it themselves??? So sad. https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/forum/#!topic/codec-devel/idezdUoV1yY https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/forum/#!topic/co...