This is absolutely true and the primary motivation for the AV1 codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose Open

This is absolutely true and the primary motivation for the AV1 codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Purpose Open and royalty-free standards mean anyone can create an implementation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Software_implementations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Software_implementations Hopefully this leads to broad adoption and more open, royalty-free standards.