>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?
Downs,
Unisys has a patent on GIF's compression algorithm, that's why they
started charging $$ for programs that create GIFs.
What's funniest is that IBM also have a patent on the same algorithm. I
wonder why they don't sue unisys... ?
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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