[Coco] Re: File extensions

[Dave Gacke]

Hi All,

They don't care about the patent issues involved with the formats though.
They care about image quality, file size, and how applicable it is to
whatever they're doing. 

Not to mention, you as a user, can't be held accountable for any patent
infringements of the art program you use. It's the guy who wrote the program
that would need to be concerned.

As far as copyrights and your artwork go, that's a whole different story.
;)


Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Mannequin*
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:38 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Re: File extensions

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:59:41 EDT
KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/19/04 8:53:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mannslists at invigorated.org writes:
> 
> > > I agree that extensions are great for people, but an OS should not 
> >  > primarily rely on them for identifying files.  In general users don't

> >  > really care if a picture is a JPEG, a GIF, a PNG, a TIFF, etc.  they 
> >  > just care that it is a picture.
> >  
> >  The problem with the picture file analogy is that people _do_ care
because 
> > of copyright and patent issues.
> 
> *People* don't care about this.  Some lawyers and professionals might.
> I know there had been some hassles around GIF in the past, but I have
plenty 
> of all type of picture files here, a photo editor that freely converts
between
> any of them, and couldn't give a hoot.  --Mike K.

But they do care! There are more than enough of these *people* we are
talking
about that work in graphics that otherwise don't know how to use their
computer.
Several people I know, or am aquanted with, come to mind. Also, most of the
*people* I know, have a preference as to which picture format they like the
best. (Normally it's JPEG.)

-M.

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