Which is my point: "JPEG XL" is "too little too late" after JPEG tried to monetize its brand with various other, pretty much failed initiatives:
- JPEG 2000 is popular in the medical imaging space but everywhere else shunned like the patented abomination it is until the patents fizzled out.
- JPEG XR is covered by Microsoft's patents that are supposedly defused under a "covenant not to sue" (but not really).
- JPEG XT builds on JPEG 2000 with all its money-grubbing problems.
- JPEG XS is a pretty particular beast regarding its use cases, but nevermind, there's a patent pool. As such it won't become popular before 2040.
Only with JPEG XL (2017) did they _finally_ acknowledge that they're working on standards that everybody avoids to the best of their abilities due to the licensing situations JPEG optimized for. 20 years for naught.
At that point WebP (whose ancestry makes it explicitly a part of the "avoid the patent mess" movement) was already out for 7 years.
- JPEG 2000 is popular in the medical imaging space but everywhere else shunned like the patented abomination it is until the patents fizzled out.
- JPEG XR is covered by Microsoft's patents that are supposedly defused under a "covenant not to sue" (but not really).
- JPEG XT builds on JPEG 2000 with all its money-grubbing problems.
- JPEG XS is a pretty particular beast regarding its use cases, but nevermind, there's a patent pool. As such it won't become popular before 2040.
Only with JPEG XL (2017) did they _finally_ acknowledge that they're working on standards that everybody avoids to the best of their abilities due to the licensing situations JPEG optimized for. 20 years for naught.
At that point WebP (whose ancestry makes it explicitly a part of the "avoid the patent mess" movement) was already out for 7 years.