From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 22:25:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A2B37B422 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8 (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA07281; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:25:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:21:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Mike Meyer Cc: Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support In-Reply-To: <15051.63677.237417.285535@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Wed, 4 Apr 2001 it looks like Mike Meyer composed: mwm->Bill Schoolcraft types: mwm->> At Wed, 4 Apr 2001 it looks like Christopher Farley composed: mwm->> Hell, Linux/Unix supports Microsoft documents with a variety of mwm->> tools, why the big turmoil over .gif's. If you don't like them, mwm->> don't use them. mwm-> mwm->MS doesn't claim patent protection for part of the process that mwm->creates documents in their format (or if they are, they aren't doing mwm->anything with it), nor are they trying to get web sites to cough up mwm->US$5K for a site license. mwm-> mwm->Personally, I switched from GIFs to JPEGs for photographic iamges in mwm->the early 90s, even though at the time there were people who claimed mwm->that produced inferior results. Since PNG works for almost everything mwm->that's left that I use GIFs for, I use that. I figure that making it mwm->obvious that their patent has no value to me is better than giving mwm->them the incorrect impression I'm adding value to it. mwm-> ......... I've probably only benefitted 5 years ago with the animated gif of me "welding" while I was still working as a certified welder with the page at http://wiliweld.com and back then if .png's were available I'd of probably tried making an animated .png then. Other than that I'm guilty of not keeping current with the current legal issues going on, hell I got repremanded for buying a book from Amazon the other day for similar reasons. (I think) I appreciate your taking time to make it clear to me. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message