KC Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Forgent Networks Thursday filed suit in Federal court against 31 companies for alleged infringement of Forgent's patent on JPEG image compression. Adobe Creative Labs Fuji Eastman Kodak Dell HP Canon Just to name a few. Full story: Story Source:Internet Week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Sucks to be them...I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
area91 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 not Microsoft for once, looks like they did it by the books this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Of how much money is the sue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 So out of curiousity, how many tech companies in the US aren't suing or being sued right now? (I think I've asked this before) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 So out of curiousity, how many tech companies in the US aren't suing or being sued right now? (I think I've asked this before) Does Creative Labs and Dell make a product which makes JPEG files or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretforce Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 this is stupid :trout: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3ta Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Everyones in for a quick buck. :( This is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC Posted April 24, 2004 Author Share Posted April 24, 2004 Well it caught me by off hand because I always though jpeg was a free format, unlike giff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Well it caught me by off hand because I always though jpeg was a free format, unlike giff Thats what I thought too :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly2003 Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Looks like the future is PNG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted April 24, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 24, 2004 I think this is really sad and disappointing in terms of corporate ethics. Releasing a product, making a load of money, waiting for people to get out of the recession and then sueing to maximize on your patent portfolio is seriously lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radium Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Well it caught me by off hand because I always though jpeg was a free format, unlike giff JPEG is free to read, but costs to write. :shifty: GIF's patents are running out all over the world now. Microsoft really should add 100% PNG support to their products. I've heard of one guy, who wrote a PNG-lib (read only) all by himself in assembly language. Microsoft can't even get the alpha correct. :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishX Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 I posted this on the front page comments, but I'll post it here too... Ok, can anyone answer this: Is .PNG public domain or open source or GPL? Personally, I'd rather use .PNG for everything. I won't go into the massive advantages it has over typically-compressed JPG and GIF formats, but suffice it to say there is MUCH more control. No, I'm not talking about file size comparisons, so don't start... Is it as widely used as it should be? No. Should it be? By all means. GIF is grossly outdated and JPG is too lossy/choppy at higher compression. PNG is the way to go. Like I said when the whole GIF lawsuit crap rolled around... leave it in the dust. It's old old technology and there are better things out there. Maybe it's time for JPG to be left behind as well. Not only that, but if JPG is going to cost everyone company they sue millions or billions, they should all take a united stand to go with another format. (Did I mention PNG?) Maybe then Microsoft would fully incorporate it into their browsers and across the board, along with so many other imaging software companies and then it might just become the Industry Standard. Then we could all leave this GIF and JPG crap behind. Viva La PNG! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly2003 Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 The only problem with PNG is that files with lots of detail can get quite big, quality is excelent because of the lossles compression, but they need to put in some form of optional lossy compression (apart from colour pallette limiting). Its a pitty the format isnt fully supported by IE, because I wold have been using it ages ago too! I suppose MS will come up with their own proprietory format rather then adopt PNG completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishX Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 I suppose MS will come up with their own proprietory format rather then adopt PNG completely. That will be the day graphical and web-based artists riot in the streets, my friend. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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