From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 21:47: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC60E37B42C for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:46:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 29284 invoked by uid 100); 5 Apr 2001 04:46:53 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15051.63677.237417.285535@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:46:53 -0500 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support In-Reply-To: <32313387@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Schoolcraft types: > At Wed, 4 Apr 2001 it looks like Christopher Farley composed: > Hell, Linux/Unix supports Microsoft documents with a variety of > tools, why the big turmoil over .gif's. If you don't like them, > don't use them. MS doesn't claim patent protection for part of the process that creates documents in their format (or if they are, they aren't doing anything with it), nor are they trying to get web sites to cough up US$5K for a site license. Personally, I switched from GIFs to JPEGs for photographic iamges in the early 90s, even though at the time there were people who claimed that produced inferior results. Since PNG works for almost everything that's left that I use GIFs for, I use that. I figure that making it obvious that their patent has no value to me is better than giving them the incorrect impression I'm adding value to it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message