On Thursday July 18 2002 09:24 pm, Joe Riel wrote:
The patent was issued in October 1987, so,
unless there are addendums, it should be expiring in 2004, right?
Not much time to collect on it...
Joe Riel
17 is one term, 99 years is another? I'm not a patent attorney,
what do I know ;
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On Friday 19 July 2002 4:22 am, shane wrote:
On Thursday 18 July 2002 6:50 pm, Tom Brinkman did speak unto the
huddled
masses, saying:
Take any .gif file and just rename it as a .png, you'll get the
same image when you open it (or
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:22:14PM -0700, shane wrote:
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 6:50 pm, Tom Brinkman did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
Take any .gif file and just rename it as a .png, you'll get the same
image when you open
Tom Brinkman wrote:
17 is one term, 99 years is another? I'm not a patent attorney,
what do I know ;
IANAL! Unless something has changed, patents have a fairly short term
(17 years sounds right) and can be renewed once. Copyrights are the
thing that have the very long life, like life of
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all future web sites have to be .png?
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 06:19 pm, shane wrote:
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all future web sites have to be .png?
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:00 -0700
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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all future web sites have to be .png?
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html
the claim seems to adress programs having the ability to display JPG,
not the ones
On Thursday July 18 2002 05:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
That's ok, we can use .png and ignore the companies that require
royalties. It's a bit late in the game to play the royalty card. My
web pages will serve up just as well in png, thank you very much.
Take any .gif file and just rename
On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote:
On Thursday July 18 2002 05:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
That's ok, we can use .png and ignore the companies that require
royalties. It's a bit late in the game to play the royalty card. My
web pages will serve up just as well in png, thank you
The patent was issued in October 1987, so,
unless there are addendums, it should be expiring in 2004, right?
Not much time to collect on it...
Joe Riel
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 6:50 pm, Tom Brinkman did speak unto the huddled
masses, saying:
Take any .gif file and just rename it as a .png, you'll get the same
image when you open it (or v'versa). You can also take M$ .ico's and
convert them
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