At 2:49 PM -0500 on 11/21/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>So far they've sued to take every Open-source MP3 encoder off the market.
>>>As far as their concerned, you need their permission to write an MP3
>>>encoder.
>
>I recently heard that some company bought the rights to the GIF format from
>CompuServe and are going to start charging licensing fees to any web sites or
>multimedia projects which use GIF files for the presentation of graphics. Is
>that crazy, or what?
The company is Unisys, they did not buy GIF -- they just "own" LZW, which
is used in GIF, and could charge whatever fees they want... So far, they
say they won't, but only if you used a product from a vendor that has
already payed a tribute to them.
