> The Patent covering the LZW compression algorythm which was used in GIF > file formats, was expired on June 20. The patent has now expired and is > in the public domain. > > The patent holder was Unisys. > > Thus, GIF no more should be avoided. they are now as free to use as PNG. > Now we should somehow manage to put aside our hatred towards GIFs. > > Cheers
I read about this in Slash Dot. But the thing is I tried PNG after I had used GIF for a long time (I was a webmaster before I even try Linux) and I find PNG to have a better quality than GIF. In slash dot I read "does this mean we should stop using PNG" - or something like than. and I don't want that :( ----------------- Hooman Baradaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hoomanb.com ----------------- _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
