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Forgent Squeezing Money Out Of JPEG, Other Patents

Posted by simoniker on from the delightful dept.

deman1985 writes "Forbes reports that Forgent Networks, Inc., developer of scheduling software and holder of a number of technology patents, has settled with both Adobe and Sony for JPEG patent infringement and is going after numerous others to collect their fair share of royalties. The company also plans to go after PVR companies, including TiVo Inc, and MP3 player makers for other various patents they claim to hold. Sounds like more fun in the courts for everyone!" We previously reported on Forgent's JPEG patent shenanigans back in April.

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  1. Great for PNG by Mr+Europe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This means great future for PNG, The Portable Network Graphics.
    http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/

  2. So what now, do we "Burn all JPEGs"? by Neuticle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, get out a bottle of digital white out, time to update the old "Burn all GIFs" pictures

    Is there an Open source alternative to JPEG like PNG is to GIF? I always thought that JPEG was patent free, and now that GIF is finally out of patent trouble, we get saddled with this.

    Screw it, I'm going back to Bitmaps and Wave files, hard drives are big enough these days.

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