The blog claims that you can't develop a video codec without tripping over patents but then links, approvingly, to an article written by the lawyer who okayed using Theora in Mozilla, talking about why he thinks there isn't any patent problem with Theora.<p>(At least the original author points out this patent situation is a terrible situation, I've seen this same point made repeatedly with responses that range from fatalistic acceptance through to a bizarre sense of triumph over <i>freetards</i>.)