Then let your cynicism drive you to hedge with H.26x but hope and advocate for something royalty free and technically equivalent to emerge. There's no need to attack VP8 and other royalty-free endeavors just because the world is cold. Look at what happened with SOPA, and now with bills being introduced to claw back against the DMCA. I wouldn't have expected either of those things to happen two years ago.
Old habits die hard; old industries die harder.
Abuse of FRAND patents is a different matter, but I will point out that it was in retaliation for asserting some pretty ridiculous patents in the first place. The nice thing about VP8 is that, even if Google turns evil (or, if you're of the opinion they already are, even more evil), the patent promise they granted is irrevocable.
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Then let your cynicism drive you to hedge with H.26x but hope and advocate for something royalty free and technically equivalent to emerge. There's no need to attack VP8 and other royalty-free endeavors just because the world is cold. Look at what happened with SOPA, and now with bills being introduced to claw back against the DMCA. I wouldn't have expected either of those things to happen two years ago.
Old habits die hard; old industries die harder.
Abuse of FRAND patents is a different matter, but I will point out that it was in retaliation for asserting some pretty ridiculous patents in the first place. The nice thing about VP8 is that, even if Google turns evil (or, if you're of the opinion they already are, even more evil), the patent promise they granted is irrevocable.