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The spin here is out of control. Google's "agenda" is to help a royalty-free video format exist, full stop. If you use H.264 on your website, you technically

The spin here is out of control. Google's "agenda" is to help a royalty-free video format exist, full stop. If you use H.264 on your website, you technically owe royalties to the MPEG-LA. Google doesn't think it should have to pay royalties just to deliver web video at all, and moreover, it doesn't think anyone should. Google has a lot of healthy idealism about the web which it enlists in ways that, of course, benefit Google too. There are probably people at Google whose full-time job is to take cool technology projects started by engineers and make them sound like profit-motivated corporate plays that will benefit shareholders. Google has stated they don't believe in software patents and think they should not exist. In the mean time, they are fighting for an unencumbered web.

rlanday 14y ago
How do you explain Google trying to use Motorola’s H.264 patents they have FRAND obligations on to screw over the other H.264 licensees? Is it any surprise that Nokia’s not happy about this? http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google_to_continue_motorolas_frand_licensing_that_seeks_to_monopolize_h264_umts http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google_to_continue... “Google is now in the process of finalizing its $12 billion acquisition of a profitless company that holds at least 17 H.264 patents, an acquisition that it expressly noted was done primarily to "protect the Android ecosystem," despite the fact that Motorola does not appear to have valuable defensive patents applicable to modern smartphones.” You state “If you use H.264 on your website, you technically owe royalties to the MPEG-LA.” This is incorrect, as long as you’re freely distributing the videos, so you’re also spinning the facts: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video-royalty-free-forever-as-long-as-its/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video...

rlanday 14y ago

How do you explain Google trying to use Motorola’s H.264 patents they have FRAND obligations on to screw over the other H.264 licensees? Is it any surprise that Nokia’s not happy about this? http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google_to_continue_motorolas_frand_licensing_that_seeks_to_monopolize_h264_umts http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/07/google_to_continue... “Google is now in the process of finalizing its $12 billion acquisition of a profitless company that holds at least 17 H.264 patents, an acquisition that it expressly noted was done primarily to "protect the Android ecosystem," despite the fact that Motorola does not appear to have valuable defensive patents applicable to modern smartphones.” You state “If you use H.264 on your website, you technically owe royalties to the MPEG-LA.” This is incorrect, as long as you’re freely distributing the videos, so you’re also spinning the facts: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video-royalty-free-forever-as-long-as-its/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/mpeg-la-makes-h-264-video...