This is stupid, sorry for the strong word, if H.264 succeeds it will be the free market that will lose and not mozilla, any startup that works with videos (say a new video editing on the cloud) will have to pay licensing fees just to serve its users, well, I do not know about people in the USA, but where I live founders generally don't have piles of money to spend in patents, the majority use dedicated servers at rackspace with linux and other open source software because it's cheaper than running your own server with Windows or Mac OS X server. Are you people not considering this as an "outcome"?