Lan Barnes wrote: > On Thu, December 7, 2006 10:07 am, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > Lan Barnes wrote: > >> > >> --%<-- snip of stuff about patents and their defensability -->%-- > > > > Two words: UNISYS GIF > > Four words: What dies that mean? ;-)
For years, the internet used GIFs. Then, one day, UNISYS decided to defend their patent and forced royalties for the use of the *compression* algorithm. This caused a huge uproar on the initernet[1] at large. See <http://www.google.com/search?q=unisys+gif> for more information regarding this, if it does not sound familiar. -john [1] I originally typoed that as ``inertnet''. I wonder if that holds any Freudian significance. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
