Date:  Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:36:12 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] OT: Now it's "pay for JPEG..."

From: warpcafeatyahoo.de 

According to recent news, a Texas-based company "Forgent Networks"
discovered that they are holding the rights in JPEG compression
technology. Things are just beginning to evolve... acoording to what they
believe, they are now allowed to raise licensing fees to manufactureres of
hardware devices (cameras, etc.) that use JPEG compression and following
will be browsers... maybe. Hakon Lie, CTO at Opera states, that things are
not to be taken too serious at this monent, as JPEG is rather a
combination of huffman and run-length coding which wre already wide spread
before JPEG came up. Anyway: First it's GIF, now it's JPEG... what's next?
"Electricity" ? ;)

Url: 
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/multimedia/story/0,10801,72876,00.html

From: Thomas Klein (warpcafeatyahoo.de)


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