Digital BW, The Print

Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:

>Paul D. DeRocco writes:
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>>But it _is_ open, in the sense that you don't have to buy Adobe software to
>>generate DNG files. Any camera manufacturer can put software in their
>>camera, based on the freely avalable DNG file format documentation, that
>>generates DNG files.
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>Can he put the trademarked DNG symbol on his software, too?
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I didn't hear anybody complain about Forgent Networks patent claims for 
using JPEG.
Sony, Macromedia and Adobe already had to pay enormous amounts of money 
for the use of JPEG.
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Hans Van Rafelghem
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