but isn't suing each other a standard practice for companies at a certain scale?
It is but AV1 was developed specifically for this to not be possible. And they're already developing the successor AV2. It looks like the dream of widely supported open standards is still more of an uphill battle than we thought.
TIL (or remembered) that AV1 is an open alternative to HEVC.
I'm not going to pretend to understand the case, but isn't suing each other a standard practice for companies at a certain scale?
It is but AV1 was developed specifically for this to not be possible. And they're already developing the successor AV2. It looks like the dream of widely supported open standards is still more of an uphill battle than we thought.