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ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard
McSpew writes "According to The Register, the ISO is prepared to withdraw JPEG as a standard if Forgent Networks continues to assert its patent claims over JPEG's compression algorithm." I'm sure the JPEG committee would still be happy to hear of prior art.
Just think of all the Pr0N I'll have to pay royalties on!
It'll be a new way for webmasters of the sex trade to make money:
"Our women are 100% patent-free!"
-Matt
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Since every image format known to man seems to be under the control of some kind of patent, I propose that the ONLY supported graphic format for all our web applications should be ASCII art, that way we should avoid all the patent mess, also ASCII art is probably the most widely available format and already has a module for gimp.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
Microsoft to enforce ".exe" patent. Bill Gates quoted, "All your program are belong to us."
:)
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
Does anyone else have any other links to confirm or (more likely) deny this?
They're kinda like the Weekly World News of technology. You know, the people who brought us BatBoy?
+5:offtopic,but anti-American
Coding system for reducing patent redundancy
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for processing patents to remove redundant information thereby making the patents more suitable for transfer and storage through a limited-bandwidth medium. The present invention specifically relates to methods and apparatus useful in intellectual property systems. Typically, the system determines differences between the current input patents and the previous input patents using mean-square difference of the patents. These mean-square of the patents are processed and compared with one or more thresholds of redundency for determining one of several modes of operation. After processing in some mode, the sucessfully processed patents are in the form of digital numbers and these digital numbers are coded, using ordered redundancy coding, and stored in the database.
SD
âoeWho knew something as harmless as willful ignorance could end up having real consequences?â
Unisys will sue Forgent for not paying any royalties on the software used to generate the 42 gif images on their webpage.
.JPG image on their webpage (http://www.unisys.com/corporate/images/home/home/ content/main_photo_homepage.jpg)
While that is going on. Forgent will sue Unisys for not paying any royalties on the
When the lawyers have taken all of their money, both of them will declare bankruptcy and go out of business.
S.E.S.S.D.E.N.E.E.NW from west end of hall of mists
If you want people to care, remind them that most of thier porn collection is probably in jpeg format.
I checked to see what types of JPEGs I've got, and they're all of naked women. Will I have to pay royalties?
Stallman, time to change that logo!