Re: [APML] Jpeg standards

[Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Hallas <tonyhallas@foothill.net> writes:

    Tony> How can they go after the billions and billions of jpeg
    Tony> images already on the net, or stop me from sending one to a
    Tony> friend... what utter BS. I suppose I'll get a "cease and
    Tony> desist" letter in the mail any day now...

No, I'm sure they're going after the software _vendors_, not the
users.  Unlike the Unisys patent debacle where migrating from GIF to
PNG was not too hard, the lossy compression that makes JPEG work so
well is more difficult to replace.

roland
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