Why can't we just change the background? On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:36:43PM -0800, Todd Walton wrote: > > >Freenet makes one "political" point, that communication between people > >should be unrestricted > > I was hoping to have made the point that unrestricted communication *is* > what we're talking about with the GIF patent issues. > > >> measures." You either have it or you don't, and the patent issues mean > >> that GIF *doesn't* have it. > > > >Neither does Windows, in fact, neither does Sun's JVM. Neither does the > >BIOS on which Linux operates. Without a pragmatic attitude towards > >issues of IP, we would be paralyzed. > > I agree. Pragmatically, giving support to the Windows platform is > necessary. JVMs and BIOSes are irrelevant here. Freenet is not tied to > any one necessarily. But, pragmatically speaking, PNGs and GIFs are both > just as good as the other. They're both just as easy to use for the > purpose at hand. It would be just as easy to use GIF as PNG. More > importantly, it would be just as easy to use PNG as GIF, leaving only > matters of principle to be considered. A consideration in which PNG wins. > > >> No matter how remote the possibility that > >> these patent issues will affect the Freenet project (it's not true that > >> encoders and decoders are the patent holders' only available targets) the > >> political and ethical issues must be recognized. > > > >Really? So you wish to restrict the usefulness of Freenet based upon > >one country's dumb laws? > > Again, this isn't an issue of usefulness. The gateway page can be just as > useful using the PNG format as with GIF, and that's the point. > > -Todd > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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