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Originally Posted by mzso
I believe someone explained before that the golden frame was kept consciously, and that it's no is not only not a disadvantage, but on the contrary it allows to do some stuff that otherwise wouldn't be possible.
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Golden frame was the goto thing they could point at when they wanted to pretend VP8/9/... is a result of an extensive independent research and novel ideas of On2's and not just a crippled H.264/HEVC copy with some arbitrary changes and mangling made so that it is harder to sue.
When your competitor makes everything in the open and drafts are available years in advance...