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Google nuke thyself: Mountain View's H.264 righteous flame-out
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              | Back in 2010, champions of a free web were ecstatic over Google's plan to seed the internet with a patent-free video. VP8 was going to crush the patent-heavy H.264, now celebrating its 10th birthday. Or so we were told.  In May of 2010, Google open-sourced VP8, the video compression codec component to the audio-visual WebM format, which it had bought and developed earlier that year, and threw open the WebM Project to all comers. |  |  
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  | Alternate title... | lando | 0 | 1,208 | Jun  3, 2013 2:53 AM | 
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