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mkl on Jan 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: AVIF support enabled by default in Firefox 86

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.

aidenn0 on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

I know you used past-tense, but at this point, the core patents should be mostly expired, right?

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