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> You might argue they lost the battle but won the war. The tide of the war is turning, little thanks to them IMO. VP9 was a Google initiative and they were al
by themacguffinman 6y ago
> You might argue they lost the battle but won the war.
The tide of the war is turning, little thanks to them IMO. VP9 was a Google initiative and they were already interested in royalty free codecs because of YouTube. Chrome didn't have to lose the H264 battle to get to work on VP9 and other royalty free technologies. Mozilla didn't do anyone any favors by losing the battle of H264 on its own. It has only made them weaker for future battles.