I fail to see how extending the royalty 'freeness' through 2016 helps Mozilla, or any of the h.264 detractors. It's more likely a devious way to entrench the standard, then hold the world hostage six years from now. The Mozilla VP is exactly right.

I see maybe two options:

1. A white knight (Google) buys the license and open-source's it. Unfortunately, probably extremely unlikely.

2. The open-source world bands together and improves the Ogg codec (or invents something new) to the point it can compete with h.264 in terms of quality and compression.