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		allyt on April 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video They chose the path that would lead to the fastest adoption of the technology which lowers their bandwidth costs. Keeping the technology Chrome-only is against their financial interests. Apple and MS pay yearly licensing fees for H.264. As soon as they adopt VP8, they can stop.

ash on April 13, 2010 [–]

Apple and Microsoft are among the H.264 licensors. I think they don't pay any licensing fees:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx

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