Star Microsoft Shows Off JPEG Rival
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th May 2006 19:18 UTC, submitted by JCooper
Microsoft If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo said in a presentation.
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RE: Curious
by dylansmrjones on Fri 26th May 2006 04:21 UTC in reply to "Curious"
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2005-10-02

Well, in that case it would be an open and free format, opposite WMPhoto.

It could be used you, by me, by Microsoft and by Stallman, so people would probably not care about the legal parts.

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RE[2]: Curious
by Tom K on Fri 26th May 2006 05:36 in reply to "RE: Curious"
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2005-07-06

The specs are open.

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RE[3]: Curious
by dylansmrjones on Fri 26th May 2006 05:49 in reply to "RE[2]: Curious"
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

It's not open!

An "Open Specification" means everybody can use it freely with absolutely no limitation of any kind.

You cannot legally create a library for Syllable OS or Haiku OS, that can handle WMP-images.

Ergo: It is not open. Accessible != Open.

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