av500

Sorry, ON2 is a codec company that prior to being bought by google was in the business of selling their codecs, VP8 included. Now, either they were good at it, then it was OK to pay that price and we would have a good codec. Or they were not and it needs google's resourses and "the entire internet" to fix that, but then google overpaid. Which one is it?

So far the only thing Google said is "they are very confident" which legally means nothing. They are not going to indemnify everybody that gets sued over VP8, are they?

So ON2 did not spend many man hours on this all these years? Less than a third year student doing it part time? Oh well, google overpaid...

well, not so strange, he recognizes a dead horse when he sees it... And the other remains of his BeOS live on happily in Android...