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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by mkl on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:40AM (#25713264)
JPEG2000 is used in some industries, but was too patent-encumbered to succeed in general. AVIF and WebP should be better for most things, and AVIF is freely licensed.
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Re:AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86 by aidenn0 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:24PM (#25717726)
I know you used past-tense, but at this point, the core patents should be mostly expired, right?
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