in-line :- On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:31, Aveek Sen <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://techfandu.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-is-freedom-bucket.html says > "Probably you should read this http://www.openformats.org/main"; to > understand more about free formats. > But http://www.openformats.org/en6 even lists jpeg format as free. Bit > confused here. If jpeg is free, why do we have to convert jpeg to png? > By Tenzin Dendup<[email protected]> > NIT Durgapur LUG mailing list I think there are two issues are :- a. JPEG is a lossy format whereas .png is not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg and b. It had patent issues just couple of years back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg#Patent_issues > -- > Regards, > Aveek Sen, > NIT Agartala, > India. > My blog-http://aveek.wordpress.com/ -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
