Patents were never the reason for a lack of VP8 adoption. When you have the likes of Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Sony firmly against it was always going to be a dead on arrival.
I honestly don't know why Google bothered to buy the company in the first place. Seems an odd place to assert a competing position.
I honestly don't know why Google bothered to buy the company in the first place. Seems an odd place to assert a competing position.