Yep
Too funny --although not unexpected. Google has open-sourced the "VP8" container/codec for royalty-free web video. Now, strange bedfellows Apple and Microsoft have to either get on board the open source train (VP8 instead of patent-encumbered H.264). Google/Mozilla/Opera already going with it, and Adobe will be authoring for it, too:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/05/google-opens-vp8-codec-aims-to-nuke-h264-with-webm.ars

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