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Originally Posted by mandarinka
Golden frame was the goto thing they could point at when they wanted to pretend VP8/9/... is a result of an extensive independent research and novel ideas of On2's and not just a crippled H.264/HEVC copy with some arbitrary changes and mangling made so that it is harder to sue.  When your competitor makes everything in the open and drafts are available years in advance... |
Live by the patent, die by the patent.
If your entire business model is based on the public granting you property rights over a specific bit of mathematics in return for publishing the exact limits of your property, it's a little bit churlish to complain that the public makes use of that information. If that deal didn't suit then they shouldn't have taken it.