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GIF graphics if the software originally used to create the GIFs Is charging web sites $5000 or more to use these now-obsolete Web sites use in order to be compatible with old web browsers.

LZW is used in an obsolete graphic format called GIF, which many However, according to Unisys, they hold LZW patents outside the The Unisys LZW patent expires in the USA on June 20, 2003. Other, much better, methods of data compression are Holds a patent on a method of data compressionĬalled LZW. Also read PNG Tips for Cartoonistsīy Drake Emko, and check out some of the web comics in our Spotlight on GIF-free sites section. Over to the PNG format has given me about a 4K reduction Why are web comics going GIF-free? "Switching JPEG patent will neither stand the test of time or the scrutiny Yes, but it wouldn't stand up in court, so ignore Forgent. "PNG alpha is identical to the version described in PorterĪnd Duff's 1984 SIGGRAPH paper, which precedes Apple's filing byįorgent claims to hold a patent that covers JPEG, right? Right? Web sites with GIFs on them have nothing to fear, right? Unisys is only going after software vendors, Helping make Unisys lose a GIF licensingĭeal is a better way to give them the finger than just using GIFs

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I'll just use GIFs without a license, and give those patentĮncourage users to upgrade to PNG-capable browsers, and showīig-budget sites that they don't have to pay multi-million-dollar Including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Which browsers support PNG? Most of them,

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The GIF fiasco and protect the digital information GIFs are now patent-free, but you can learn from Right to create Web graphics and software.įree the Web! Burn all GIFs! Bay Area Web developers march for software patent reform Patents page is up-to-date with coverage of the software patent Of the authors of the "cookies" spec mentioned to me that theyĬonsidered the idea "too trivial to patent." To characterize It's even more ironic that in private conversation, one That was introduced several years before Amazon filed for their

Amazon boycott page at the Free Software Foundation site.Ĭompletely trivial application of cookies, a technology US Department of Defense finalizes plan to burnīurn All GIFs Day mailing list Please do not buy from Amazon. A project of the League for Programming Freedom.