You wrote "MPEGLA was terrified of WebRTC and HTML5 standardising under a truly royalty free ...". Note the conjunction, also the past tense ("was"). When I called you on being wrong (HTML was never going to standardize on VP8/WebM), you changed your argument. Are you implying that WebRTC making VP9 (not 8) MTI would in the future affect HTML? If so, dream on. If not, you shifted your argument, and plonk.

BTW I answered your Daala vs. hardware question. Read more carefully. Getting into hardware as second codec is hard for any codec, even with a big sugar daddy (Google). Leapfrog via the GPU is the better way.