Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:21:44 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any artists interested in doing a FreeBSD animated GIF banner? Message-ID: <3A0445A8.8C84AA9B@softweyr.com> References: <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <24460.973306717@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001104130912.B57240@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>
> Jordan Hubbard said on Nov 3, 2000 at 18:58:37:
> > > I'm interested in giving it a shot, but what about the GIF patent
> > > issue -- paying royalties to Unisys if one uses unlicensed software
> > > like the Gimp, and so on?
> >
> > That seems to have been a tempest in a teapot. I wouldn't particularly
> > worry about it since nobody else appears to be doing that in the banner
> > ads I'm seeing.
>
> Well, if you say so...
> I'll think about what sort of animation, etc. Any suggestions?
A daemon stabbing a penguin with a pitchfork?
Oh, sorry.
/me takes off his "BillF" mask...
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