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Originally Posted by kosmonaut
The last thing Dark needs is help defending himself, but this seems pretty unfair. It was inevitable that many people (myself included) were going to want to hear from him on VP8. His analysis is thorough! You can argue with his conclusions if you want, but the last thing you can call his post is superficial. Interested parties, like Steve Jobs, were going to use what he said for their own purposes, no matter what Dark posted, but at least he put all his cards on the table for anybody to read and decide for themselves.
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His cards for the patent side were opinion completely unbiased by any facts. Without looking at actual patents and prior arts it's impossible to guess at the strength of patents or even the likelihood of something being patented.
Would a sane person think it likely that Nokia invalidated it's own intra prediction patents by early disclosure? Not likely ... but to think it impossible is naive. That kind of stuff happens all the time and it seems it happened here.