Lo wrote:
They own United States patent 4,698,672 which covers the JPEG compression standard, this patent was created by Compression Labs who Forgent bought back in 1997. Over the last two years, Forgent's has generated $90 million from licensing the patent to 30 different companies.
I forget when the Amiga could first display JPEG's but it was way before '97 :-?
I thought JPEG was done on some volounteer free work? Like GPL or something like that? I remember most JPEG decoders had some ackowlegdment like "Independent JPEG group" back in the early 90's..."
