I don't disagree, but on the other hand, the web has taken many horrible standards, made them ubiquitous and used their collective intelligence and spare time to push them to places that no one expected.
This ironically demonstrates the absurd nature of patents in networked contexts, because not having patents made those things more valuable (to the world at large) since most of the value comes from the adopters and the ecosystem, not the specific patented spec.
JP2 would have had some niches that it could have grown from, scanned books for example.
This ironically demonstrates the absurd nature of patents in networked contexts, because not having patents made those things more valuable (to the world at large) since most of the value comes from the adopters and the ecosystem, not the specific patented spec.
JP2 would have had some niches that it could have grown from, scanned books for example.