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Forgent Networks is forging forward with its attempt to collect money from JPG users. Apparently they have collected $90 million to date, and have now sued more than thirty big names in computing & graphics - HP, Adobe, Canon, Panasonic, Xerox, Kodak, & more.
I'm still waiting for the hyperlink patent to be enforced... ;)
I'm still waiting for the hyperlink patent to be enforced...
I think BT's given up on that.
But if I remember correctly I was the first to use "www" ;)
"maximize shareholder value" by adding these companies to a list of 30 others who have paid $90 million to Forgent over the past two years from this patent.
From the article.
I think the 30 others are not the ones named in the article but ones who decided to settle and just get on with it.
So this means the big boys mentioned are being sued now. Where does it end... ten years down the line will individuals also be sued for having downloaded jpeg files?
"maximise shareholder value" - really. Shareholders will be much better off living in a world where bogus patents can be raised left right and center, companies make incompatable systems, no-one shares information or ideas.
There has to be a better way.
surely that's one of my (;)'s at the end there : ))
<<There has to be a better way.>>
"open source and the penguin".......
now if ever "sun" start in over the "dot" we're all screwed........!
now if ever "sun" start in over the "dot"
Sun's on slippery ground. They've built a brand on the name of a celestial body ...and the pope is really duty bound to maximise "shareholder" value for his boss.
Sun's on slippery ground.
Anyway, wasn't Sun originally something like Stanford University Network?
Jon.
What is Forgent's claim on the patent? What part of the JPG compression are they claiming to be theirs?
