Forgent is the latest company in a long line to sue for something related to software patents and "proprietary technologies". I fully believe in intellectual property, but if it's that important, it seems you wouldn't want to wait twenty years to decide you need to collect money from it. This follows SCO among others. What is it with companies who want to sue for something that they should have been on top of years ago?
The claim to the JPEG standard has long irked the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee, which has worked to create standards related to the file format since it was devised in 1986. When the company first staked its claim to JPEG, the committee denounced attempts to derive fees from the standard and expressed disappointment at Forgent's attempts to do so. The U.K.-based group could not immediately be reached for comment on the latest suit.
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