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[โ€“] technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Decided to OpenSource instead of Software Patent (as my employer was urging me). Nowadays, that technique is used in every decent Image CDN + compression tool. Still proud to see it everywhere. Maybe it wouldn't have made it if had been patented.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

You contributed something for the common good. You can be proud of your decision

[โ€“] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

You may not have gotten rich, but at least you can say on your resume that your technique is in every decent CDN + compression tool!

[โ€“] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Without open sourcing it, it would probably been hard to market it and keep improving it though. Like if Linux was not open source project it probably would have had the same fate so many other OS before it had.