The JPEG patent

The JPEG patent

Posted Apr 29, 2004 13:52 UTC (Thu) by jmshh (guest, #8257)
In reply to: The JPEG patent by noise
Parent article: The JPEG patent

While I'm seeing all the other issues like you, there is one historic difference: a lot of projects threw out GIF, even when they didn't have to. The patent in this case applies to compression only, so decompression was never a problem.

Of cause, Unisys was not interested in making that difference too obvious...

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