Is JPEG format NOT free ? As Java developers, will we be impacted if we developed software, games using JPEG ?
See the link below :
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53981,00.html
First it was gif, now it comes JPG. The software patents are really suck
“02:00 AM Jul. 19, 2002 PT” :
I know that it’s an old news but it has not been settled yet. Here is a more recent article.
http://www.forgent.com/company/press_room/eweek-9-24-04.shtml
The article says that Sun is also being involved with the law suit.
IANAL, but I believe Sun idemnifies java users/developers anyway. So that they don’t have their “Kodak moment”, as Scott McNealy put it during Solaris 10 launch…
And I ripped it out of my VM 
Cas