Re: [APML] Jpeg standards

[Michael Gregory <mikeg@airmail.net>]

       Here is some more info:

http://www.jpeg.org/newsrel1.htm

Later,

Mike Gregory


At 11:17 AM 7/24/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>>> "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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