Like | Father Like Son Libvpx

"How do we make video free for the entire world?" libvpx’s Solution: Take the father’s patents, grant a perpetual, royalty-free license (via Google), open the source, and let thousands of developers optimize it for every platform from Raspberry Pi to YouTube’s servers.

When you watch a WebRTC video call or stream a VP9 video on a low-powered Chromebook, you are witnessing the law of generational inheritance in software: the father built the engine, but the son gave it to the world. like father like son libvpx

"How do I make a high-quality codec without paying MPEG LA’s patent royalties?" On2’s Solution: Invent novel algorithms, patent them, and charge licensing fees anyway—becoming a smaller, shadier version of MPEG LA. "How do we make video free for the entire world