> Google's engineers are making the call and the counsel is just providing legal advice. The legal counsel doesn't know what is infringing on what. [citation

> Google's engineers are making the call and the counsel is just providing legal advice. The legal counsel doesn't know what is infringing on what. [citation needed] What makes you think that a big company with enormous potential for legal liability would let engineers make decisions that are of legal consequence, like whether to aggressively push a video format amidst a patent minefield? Do you think the engineers wrote the patent license too?