General Electric claiming patent to JPEG?

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2002-December/000998.html

Has anyone else heard anything about this? It seems like this would have
been much bigger news considering the famous compuserve/gif patent issues.

Something Ralph Nader said in wired today is the first I have heard of
it…

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, MTAA

fuck 'em all!!!

chant along with me!

PNG! SVG! PNG! SVG!

I'll march for built-in support for PNG and SVG in MSIE!

in the meantime pray for a *nix monopoly. death to m$! long live all
flavs of UNIX (including mac osx ;-))!!!

At 10:19 -0800 2/28/03, Brett Stalbaum wrote:
>http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2002-December/000998.html
>
>Has anyone else heard anything about this? It seems like this would have
>been much bigger news considering the famous compuserve/gif patent issues.
>
>Something Ralph Nader said in wired today is the first I have heard of
>it…


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