[dba-Tech] H.264 or VP8?

The new battlefield of the web is going to be in the area of hardware
accelaration and the associated standards. Right now it appears that H.264
protocol maker is holding the one key to the one door and armed to the teeth
with patents. 

A new open-web standard is now being developed called VP8 but will it
simplily, by the narrowness of the development room, have to tread on some
of H.264 patents specs and then open developers to law suits?

Below is a link to a very thoughtful discussion on the subject:
http://itpastorn.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-h264-is-disqualified-from-being-we
b.html

Jim