as a ridiculously naive and poor business person, I'd like to say that if webm becomes popular enough that google can serve it and avoid h264 (and paying royalties to MPEG-LA), I'd consider it a step toward my vision of a more open web (royalty-free codec widely available) and a good development for my business (royalty-free codec widely available).

no one is pretending that this will be all rainbows (the post directly acknowledges the current stalemate), so feel free to assume that those of us in favor of this development aren't idiots.