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but I didn't realise that it was illegal to use gif. Thank goodness I won't have to convert them all to jpg. There's a few million of them. Stick, thine posts bring light to mine eyes, tingles to my loins. Yea, each moment I sit, my monitor before me, waiting, yearning, needing your prose to make the moment complete. 06/19/2003 09:43:11 AM EST (>2. I've used PNGs instead of GIFs as long as I've had a website (Which is down till August, but still. I've never had any problems with them. You're not really part of the problem. 06/19/2003 10:02:01 AM EST (>4. 06/19/2003 10:04:51 AM EST (>3.
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in the slightest. What happened to the "BURN ALL GIFS" rallying cry? It has been forgotten. There are all sorts of excuses; "It's too much hassle to convert all my graphics and their links", "Internet Explorer doesn't support PNG properly", "PNGs can't do animation and nobody supports MNGs". The best one of all: "Unisys will never sue me!". I wish Unisys a happy year squeezing the very last drops out of their monopoly. or "Why He Stopped Writing Compression Software". You must accept a cookie to log in. I don't have a website. I have some, but I'm changing them all to PNGs. Unisys will
are licensed. The GIF format becomes even more popular. The GIF format becomes even more popular. The GIF format becomes even more popular. The GIF format becomes even more popular. The GIF format becomes even more popular. So the US patent has expired. covers Germany, France, Britain and Italy and expires on the 18th June 2004. expires on the 6th June 2004. This creates an interesting legal situation where LZW-based sofware is legal to distribute in the United States, but risks patent infringement claims in or when exported to Europe, Canada and Japan. hasn't diminished GIF's popularity
GIFs into an entirely new medium that had little need for backward compatibility. In 1995, Unisys finally published a royalty sheet, exempting "non-commercial" software. By now most folks had forotton the controversy. In 1999, Unisys finally realized the web had become commercialized and got around to agressively enforcing their patent. In my view, the main 'controversy' about this whole thing is that (A) The GIF format wasn't replaced forthright back in 1990, and (B) The avalanche of new online users from 1995-1999 were not made aware of the patent issues surrounding GIF. Thus
have to pry the GIFs from my cold, dead fingers. i always found it amusing that the other side used gifs instead of pngs despite bleating about how bad patents were. 06/19/2003 05:18:36 AM EST (>4. 06/19/2003 06:01:53 AM EST (>4. 06/19/2003 01:21:30 PM EST (>5. 06/19/2003 05:05:53 PM EST (>3. 06/19/2003 05:59:40 AM EST (>3. 06/19/2003 06:38:05 PM EST (>3. 06/19/2003 01:38:09 PM EST (>2. invented new compression techniques>, had them stolen by patent, and gave up the field. 06/19/2003 08:43:12 AM EST (>3. 06/19/2003 10:23:18 AM EST (>3. I've been storing all my kiddie porn as gifs,
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