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chrischen
on April 13, 2010
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Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
Dude they control YouTube... That's huge leverage. Not to mention any video startups would be quick to adopt this.
sp332
on April 13, 2010
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Adobe Flash used to control YouTube, and look where that ended up.
mhartl
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Google actually
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YouTube. Adobe never did.
chrischen
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Not really. Google might have paid for a copy of Flash or Flex to build the player, but other than that they don't pay any licensing fees to Adobe since they don't use Flash media server.
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