PNG: is this bad news ?

Subject: PNG: is this bad news ?
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 04:54:10 CST

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As you all knowm we use PNG as our internal image format. It appears that
Apple is trying to enforce a patent on Alpha Blending for all PNG "users":

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/22898.html

Is this a real bad news ?
Note that the problem is also raised for SVG.
I'll follow the affair.
Se also:

    http://pmt.sourceforge.net/SVG-patents/apple.html

Hub

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