congratulations for your work with Mozilla and Ericsson. Although. Its good to see a free (as in beer not as in freedom) H.264 codec that anybody can use and Cisco pays the bill. This will certainly help achieve inter-operable collaboration with many other systems that use H.264.

So , while this is much needed and a step in the right direction - and I certainly appreciate Cisco for doing this - , I have a burning question:
Why is Cisco standing behind the evil MPEG-LA that has tried to create a patent pool in the past, and prevent innovation for the whole world. A codec or an algorithm should not be patentable. It is clear that the patent laws are too old, and should not apply to software and the internet era.

Instead of supporting H.264 and paying the MPEG-LA licences for the community, why is Cisco not embracing a truly royalty-free codec like VP8 or VP9?
That would be the real good thing to do.

That's not to diminish the real point of your post and your achievement: Congratulations for your advances with Firefox and Ericsson.
But MPEG-LA should stop the BS and release all the patents to the public domain.