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Old 14th June 2019, 22:11   #1738  |  Link
mandarinka
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And you think the companies like Google with vested interest in VP9/AV1 have no incentive to astroturf or paint their product in better light and competing in worse than is fair?

Actually, it might be open source enthusiasts and evangelists that volunteer/vigilante/follow these things as a hobby and not as a job/living that are the worst offenders with FUD ("Fear, uncertainty and doubt") or untrue claims, because companies are actually somewhat afraid of being held accountable.
These folks probably often don't even get they do something dishonest or if they do, they think it's fine because "we are the good guys" (no, principles should hold for everybody.). Even if we put apart more controversial fields for sake of not starting offotpic flame... good example is for example the twitter/phoronix forums marketing of the Raptor Engineering (Power9 vendor) that routinely uses strongly dishonest FUD against x86 to sell their stuff to paranoid people as a company that does it, libreboot as non-profit people that do it and then the general fandom of this free hardware(firmware) movements as general internet people that then perpetuate it further. You could probably find a lot of that blinded hypocrisy here too.
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