Comment 32 for bug 593477

@Rémi Denis-Courmont: VP8 is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation as its patent license is compliant with software freedom. It is because Google owned the patents that they were able to license them with that open license. Patents aren't code. You can't "release" them or nullify them once they are issued. H.264 is a for-profit format whose ulterior existence reason is commercial, and most of its pool members have proven evil throughout their existence. "Top-notch open-source implementations" exist for VP8 too. libavcodec's ffvp8 decoder is faster than their ffh264 decoder. VP8 encoding in x264 is being developed as project xvp8 and will be internally integrated into x264. Thanks for nothing Remi.