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> H.264 has a group of companies and a lot of lawyers backing it up. How can it help against some patent troll who can appear tomorrow and threaten H.264 users? No army of lawyers can help against that. So all this rhetoric is completely useless. Legally VP8 is as good as H.264. The only reason for them to avoid is to retain their monopolistic grip on codecs usage.
As opposed to handing a monopolistic grip to Google? A lot of money and a lot of lawyers can do a lot of vetting.
Google has no grip on codecs market. Learn the facts first.