At the risk of feeding what is probably a troll, I'll point out that you are confused about Mozilla's financial structure. Do some research.

A homosexual Mozilla employee's take on the topic: http://subfictional.com/2014/0...
A statement from Mitch Baker, Mozilla chairperson: https://blog.lizardwrangler.co...
A statement from Brendan himself: https://brendaneich.com/2014/0...
An official Mozilla statement on its policy regarding employee and contributor diversity: https://blog.mozilla.org/press...

You might be interested in the perspective of one gay Mozilla employee, then: http://subfictional.com/2014/0...

Sure. Apple, Microsoft, me, you -- it's all the same: it makes no difference to Rockstar.

No, but shooting you in the head won't stop the dog. Apple, Microsoft, et al. did bad things. But there's nothing you can do to them to stop the rampage.

Also FTFA:

Google's own patent bank doesn't matter, because Rockstar Consortium doesn't do anything other than undermine the very fabric of the tech industry for their own gain. They exist only to collect rent on innovation itself. FTFA: "'Pretty much anybody out there is infringing,' says John Veschi, Rockstar’s CEO. 'It would be hard for me to envision that there are high-tech companies out there that don’t use some of the patents in our portfolio.'"

To spell it out more clearly, Google can't sue Rockstar over patent infringement, because Rockstar doesn't actually do anything that Google would have a patent on (unless Google owns some "Method and Process for Utterly Crippling the Tech Industry Using Patent Lawsuits" business process patent we don't know about).

The timing couldn't be better. We finally have the first credible effort in U.S. Congress to re-evaluate how patents are handled (http://eshoo.house.gov/press-releases/eshoo-introduces-patent-litigation-reform-bill/), and couldn't have crafted a better supervillian than Rockstar if we tried. They even have a comically bombastic name to put a cherry on top of their already odious persona.

Well, keep in mind that an MTI video codec is mostly intended to serve the purpose of preventing complete failures to negotiate. Also, the MTI that 's being proposed in the IETF is H.264 baseline, which is a far sight worse than VP8 by pretty much every metric imaginable. If H.264 baseline is selected as MTI, then I would imagine that the existing implementations will continue to offer VP8 in preference to H.264 baseline, and fall back to H.264 baseline only as an emergency backup "codec of last resort".

As far as Opus is concerned, both Firefox and Chrome currently use Opus as their preferred audio codec for WebRTC, and have since day one. Opus was a relatively uncontroversial choice as the MTI codec, so I suspect any other interested parties will be happy to do the same.

In terms of Opus support for the audio element... well, try it out for yourself. Put this in an arbitrary HTML file, load it up in Firefox, and see what you get: <audio src="http://radioserver1.delfa.net:80/256.opus" controls/>

You understand what "WebRTC" is, right?

The point here is that emscripten can get within 1/2 native speed when the resulting code is put on a modern JavaScript engine. You're not regressing 25 years; you're regressing about 18 months.

You must have had an *awesome* 8 MHz 8086 if it could do this: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

Oh, that's easy: "It looks like you're downloading illegal content. 'The Game of Thrones' cannot currently be purchased online. Click here for a special offer to add HBO-on-demand to your Comcast subscription for only $18.99 per month! (Note: Two year commitment required. Non-TV subscribers must also add the $39.99-per-month 'Digital Starter' package to take advantage of this deal)."

Yeah, I can't imagine that Comcast has a profit motive here or anything.

Huh? Purchased? Owners? Gold fever?

Mozilla is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. No one stands to get rich from this.

We'll welcome you back to the reality-based conversation whenever you feel like re-joining us.

Yeah, I guess it's just Spain and nowhere else.

If only there were some large, developing continent where most countries use Spanish as their native language. Some place where non-smart-phones are still in wide use because people don't want to pay $800 for an iPhone or $400 for an Android phone. Some place where a low-cost, highly capable phone might be welcomed. If only...

The problem is that Opera does implement getUserMedia, but not peerConnection. They can do the part of RTC that accesses cameras and microphones, but not the part that sends it over the network.