Re: 2.24, see what it does to GIFs in IE

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From: Robert Schlabbach
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00

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Rob Miller <rob.miller@x.cnolife.com> wrote in message
news:7r5pk8$2gn$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> Unisys is starting to scramble on this issue as their patent is going to
> expire in a few years and then they will no longer be able to reap the
> royalties from all the companies they currently get them from.  This is
an
> interesting issue and it's interesting to see others that have an
interest
> in it.  It's interesting to see how Unisys has changed their stance over
the
> past few months.  Perhaps we could move this to the LZW forum, rather
than
> this Creative forum?

Thanks for the long explanation, I don't think this needs more discussion.
However, my advice still stands: The SIMPLEST way around this silly patent
issue is to use PNG instead of GIF. That's the "guaranteed no headaches"
method, rather than the "likely no headaches, but not guaranteed" one...

Regards,
--
Robert Schlabbach
e-mail: robert@powerstation.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

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