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(Unverified)Aug 31st 2010 9:54AM

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This does't change anything for Firefox and Opera by the way, because the only change is broadcasting H.264 content over the Internet is free (if the video is free).
http://www.matlus.com/2010/08/h-264-free-for-internet-broadcast/

@SilverWave - No Google is not in the clear. Infringing on a patent is still an infringement. If it is determined that VP8 does indeed infringe on parts of the H.264 spec then WebM is in trouble.

@Moondoggie it doesn't matter what container a codec is wrapped in. So there is no need nor advantage of WebM supporting H.264 and so the WebM project has to and should not do anything about H.264. I don't see why you see they have to get married. WebM is WebM, browser vendors can support multiple container/codec combinations.

I'm pretty sure Firefox can use the codecs installed on a computer without violating any licenses, which mean they could support H.264 if you already have the decoder installed. But they don't want to. the Mozilla organization is a still a business ($300 million from Google each year) only their source code is open source, so let's not forget that each business has it's own interests in mind first and foremost.

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