Even better, given that the issues raised by (iirc) Mircosoft and Apple against webp becoming the HTML5 standard video codec (and thus mandatory to support for

Even better, given that the issues raised by (iirc) Mircosoft and Apple against webp becoming the HTML5 standard video codec (and thus mandatory to support for HTML5 compliance) was that of 'patent uncertainty', with this agreement we can finally get a really great royalty free standard codec which can be used with any browser which is HTML5 compliant. Same goes for WebRTC, which should now be on the fasttrack to be accepted as the standard for RTC (currently supported by Chrome, Mozilla and Opera). I think having open and royalty free standards for such integral parts of what is likely to be the 'future of the web' is extremely important to foster innovation, thanks to VP8/VP9 and Opus we now have technically competitive offerings which anyone can implement free of charge across all platforms and for whatever interesting solutions they can come up with.