On: Apple, Google, Facebook's AV1 standards group under EU antitrust investigation

[mappu]

My reading of that statement is that there's no problem with mandatory cross-licensing. Instead it's about other companies - who did not help with AV1 development - being strong-armed into joining the cross-licensing agreement.

[JoshTriplett → mappu]

Company maintaining patent pool to strong-arm others: how dare you strong-arm us into not strong-arming others?

[josefx → JoshTriplett]

Company doing its own thing: Installing a standards conformant web browser forces us to sign over all our IP to Google.