Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Jpeg patent furor
From: Mark Cohen <markc@binaryfaith.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:25:33 -0700 (PDT)

For what its worth, the same thing happened to gif.

The only real way to get around this is to use png.

- -Mark

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Adam Bridge wrote:

> The future of the current jpeg standard for transmission of images is being
> undermined by litigation.
>
> If you'd like to find out a little more you can got to the JPEG working
> group site. Since we're in the image business anything that affects our
> ability to easily transmit them should be of interest.
>
> It seemed that JPEG would be safe, but it appears not to be. Sigh.
>
> Here's a non-inflammatory URL:
>
> http://www.jpeg.org/newsrel1.htm
>
> Adam Bridge
>
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