JPEG Patent Challenged

ChocLinux writes "The Public Patent Foundation has filed a request at the US Patent Office to revoke Compression Labs' data compression patent, which it is reportedly using to harrass anyone that implements the JPEG format. 'CLI's aggressive assertion of the '672 patent is causing substantial public harm by threatening this international standard on which the public relies,' says Pubpat in its filing."

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Re:Was it obvious?

[NotQuiteReal]

"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail." - A. Maslow

However, Maslow had it wrong - he should have said; "To the man who only has a screwdriver in the toolkit, every problem looks screwed."

Actually, you can hammer with a wrench, and you can certainly screw things up with a hammer. You can easily kill someone with any of those tools. I personally prefer an ice-pick for certain tasks, which you can make from a screwdriver by rubbing it obsessivley on concrete cell floors. The work goes faster if you mutter under your breath.

Let me appologize in advance for the off-topic post. May the next 11 months pass as quickly as the last.