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- From: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
- Subject: Re: Kodak Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.190015.3861@adobe.com>
- Sender: usenet@adobe.com (USENET NEWS)
- Reply-To: byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer)
- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
- References: <1992Nov5.173220.26980@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:00:15 GMT
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- Michael B. Johnson writes
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- > The top two, which are the most interesting ones, are encoded in
- > such a way that you (for the most part) need software from Kodak
- > to read the images. I say for the most part, because this also is
- > not terribly difficult to write software to get at, but (and this
- > is where the flame war erupted elsewhere) people on the net have
- > written software to do this, and Kodak has warned them that selling
- > this software will probably violate patents they have.
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- Maybe it's time for GNUPhoto?
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- Give away the object, sell the UI or the filter to TIFF...
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