On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:14:43 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
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> Isn't it reactions like this that cause great minds to develop alternate
> methods?
> Isn't this what Phil Katz did when he was told that he had to pay royalties
> for the use of his compression routine, PKPAK/PKUNPAK, and he developed the
> routine, PKZIP/PKUNZIP? PAK and UNPAK quickly disappeared into obscurity and
> ZIP became the defacto standard for file compression.
> Long live ingenuity!
Could you perhaps be referring to the "ingenuity" of JPEG and PNG ???
IMHO, if someone develops an animated JPEG or PNG..... Goodbye GIF !!!
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