Timeline for Why don't cameras support JPEG 2000 format?
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 22:54 | comment | added | mattdm | In 2000, the fiasco with GIF and the Unisys patents was still fresh in everyone's mind. Fairly or not, I think this did have a significant impact on uptake. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 11:32 | comment | added | Leonidas | @cabbey: That one was only one example. The german Wikipedia states that all add-ons like colour profiles and metadata-formats equally are not verbalized as licence-free. | |
| May 6, 2011 at 6:01 | comment | added | cabbey | Note that the submarine patent theory is applicable to every single standard ever written. There have in fact already been a number of such patents turned up against the original jpeg. So while it might be one small facet of why jpeg2000 never got any traction, I doubt it's the entire reason, or even a large part. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 17:29 | history | answered | Leonidas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |