Re: [linuxiran] GIF Patent Expired

[Arash Zeini]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 21:03, Hooman Baradaran wrote:

> > The Patent covering the LZW compression algorythm which was used in GIF
> > file formats, was expired on June 20. The patent has now expired and is
> > in the public domain.
> >
> > The patent holder was Unisys.
> >
> > Thus, GIF no more should be avoided. they are now as free to use as PNG.
> > Now we should somehow manage to put aside our hatred towards GIFs.
> >
> > Cheers
>
> I read about this in Slash Dot. But the thing is I tried PNG after I had
> used GIF for a long time (I was a webmaster before I even try Linux) and I
> find PNG to have a better quality than GIF.
> In slash dot I read "does this mean we should stop using PNG" - or
> something like than. and I don't want that :(
>
> -----------------
> Hooman Baradaran
> address@hidden
> www.hoomanb.com
> -----------------

I think we do not need to switch, but the great thing should be that FLOSS can 
now easily write software that works with GIF, right?

Arash
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