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sambeau on Jan 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fast Lossless Color Image Compression

Impressive. But, I guess someone has to ask the inevitable, sad question: "which patents does this code unwittingly infringe?"

joeybaker on Jan 30, 2012 [–]

The fact that the question is inevitable is disgusting.

sambeau on Jan 30, 2012 | [–]

Agreed, especially if this was developed in a closed room.

smosher on Jan 30, 2012 | | [–]

Do you mean clean room? That protects you from copyright, but not from patents.

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