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RE[4]: Comment by Nelson
by jared_wilkes on Thu 7th Mar 2013 23:13
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There's nothing stopping a public company to give out something for free, even if they had to pay for it, as long as they can convince shareholders that this will generate revenue or reduce costs in the long run.
E.g. whatever the cost of VP8 license was to Google can be much cheaper than H.264 rate for running YouTube.
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We don't know how much it cost for Google (if anything), but it's free for everyone using the license:
http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/03/vp8-and-mpeg-la.html
http://www.webmproject.org/license/additional/