Unfortunately I'm just quoting my own anecdotal knowledge of the discussions that raged about VP8 when Google released it. I don't think your link contradicts

Unfortunately I'm just quoting my own anecdotal knowledge of the discussions that raged about VP8 when Google released it. I don't think your link contradicts what I said - in fact, in a way it gels very well with it: the conclusion is that VP8 is essentially H.264 with all sorts of bits missing and tweaks that in most cases make it worse than H.264. That's exactly what you would expect if someone took a patented algorithm and went through it point by point to work around the patented parts.