Digital BW, The Print

>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

Sony, Macromedia, and Adobe PAID? don't you really mean that we, the consumer are about to get "operating cost" increases again (perhaps miniscule . . . but $0.02 times a few hundred thousand is a lot of pennies). Please Hans . . . they haven't really paid a cent, and like all businesses, the cost will be passed downwards . . . that means YOU and ME.

Paul Aparycki



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