Re: FLASH: OT: PNG instead of GIF/JPEGs

[Thorsten Schmiedel]

jeez.... that is a bummer... didn't know about that...well, an easy way to

make a whole lotta money, isn't it? i was glad to read that the

patent-rights have expired in all other countries but the United States

(pardon selfish-me for living in europe), but then again; most of the www

traffic is routed via the states, so we too will probably will get our

kicks.


greetings,


thosch



> IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE SCARED...

> Brittish Telecommunications announced back in June that they own the patent

> on hyperlinks! They have threatened to charge every ISP a license fee. It

> remains to be seen if their argument even has any merit and I haven't heard

> anything recently on the topic. You can read the story at News.com:

> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2115385.html



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