On Sunday 22 June 2003 21:03, Hooman Baradaran wrote: > > 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 > -----------------
I think we do not need to switch, but the great thing should be that FLOSS can now easily write software that works with GIF, right? Arash -- The FarsiKDE Project www.farsikde.org _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
