There is NOTHING against anyone is writing anything about ON2's VP8 being "open-sourced" by Google just trying to see anyone from any company KNEW while TESTING/INTEGRASTING ON2's VP8 into their products in 2009?
----One of the most unexpected supporters is Adobe, whose CTO Kevin Lynch said that his company is really excited about the new codec. Adobe will use VP8 for Flash and, Lynch said that it will help to dristribute VP8 “to a billion people within a year.”
Google Open Sourcing VP8 as Part of WebM Project
By Janko Roettgers May. 19, 2010
Google announced at its i/O developers conference that it is open sourcing its VP8 video codec under a BSD-style license. The move is part of a wider open source initiative dubbed WebM that is supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera and a number of other players. Google Vice President, Product Management Sundar Pichai made the announcement early on in he keynote and was then joined by Mozilla’s VP of engineering Mike Shaver, who said that the format will be supported by Firefox, with nightly builds being available starting today.
One of the most unexpected supporters is Adobe, whose CTO Kevin Lynch said that his company is really excited about the new codec. Adobe will use VP8 for Flash and, Lynch said that it will help to dristribute VP8 “to a billion people within a year.”
http://gigaom.com/video/google-open-sourcing-vp8-as-part-of-webm-project/
Google Acquires Video Compression Technology Company On2 For $106 Million
Robin Wauters
Aug 5, 2009
If would be great if Google decides to open-source On2′s VP7 and VP8 video codecs and free them up as the worldwide video codec standards, thus becoming alternatives to the proprietary and licenced H264 codecs. On2 has always claimed VP7 is better quality than H264 at the same bitrate.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/google-acquires-video-compression-technology-company-on2-for-106-million/
