It was based on Google's submission, the majority of the authors are Google employees, and the majority of the commits to the reference implementation were writ

It was based on Google's submission, the majority of the authors are Google employees, and the majority of the commits to the reference implementation were written by Google employees. You mean other than that? That's not to say they're the only contributors or should have all the credit. But it does make the "Google is trying to kill an open standard to push their own format" narrative here completely moronic.