Double Standards. Hypocrisy.
Google's move is nothing but hypocrisy. Google's very own Chrome
integrates Adobe's
proprietary Flash standard which
contradicts Google's claim of only support open video formats.
Google does acknowledge the popular H.264 format had an "important role" but claimed that Google's WebM is open despite MPEG-LA standards group,
Microsoft and Apple have warned that WebM may violate patents and could face legal trouble.
Google later provided a
lengthy excuse on why WebM was the codec in HTML <video> tag. However Google failed to explain its double standards on
integrating proprietary Flash video.