Happy new year pods! The following article was gleened of the PowerPC news and I thought you lot might like a read.
It envolves Unisys trying to get a patent for GIF files. Scary. "(January 6th 1995) The future of the world's most popular graphics image format, GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), was put into doubt this week following a patent claim from Unisys. The file format uses the Lempel-Ziv & Welch (LZW) compression technique to keep file sizes down, and falls foul of Unisys Corp's US patent 4,558,302. That Unisys intended to collect from developers supporting the GIF standard emerged on December 28th when Compuserve announced it had taken a licence and was offering a sub-licence to developers building Compuserve add-ons." I wonder if the Sam GIF converter developers will pay up ;) Also if you type 'Pentium' into my spell checker you get 'Penis'. Hmmm. Dan Doore.
