Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:04:31 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Andrew J. Brehm" <andrew@netneurotic.de> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GIF Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000526143059.95256b-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <392E6ED5.A14DC070@netneurotic.de>
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andrew J. Brehm wrote: > I understand you have no connection to the Free Software Foundation, and > I also understand that the question whether to use GIF files or not is > more of a political question than a technical one. > unlike fsf, the freebsd project holds no software patents, but that is a topic for another list. > But since FreeBSD is, as the name implies, free, and since software > patents threaten the development of FreeBSD as much as that of GNU, > wouldn't it be better not to support GIF and use PNG or JPEG instead? > The logos date from time when none of the major - or not so major - browsers supported png. jpeg really isn't the right format for such things. Thus, there was no practical choice. Software patents are a political issue - talk to the person representing in the parliament or the equvalent of that to get them outlawed in the place you live. > I was going to download some FreeBSD logos, but I could only find these > "powered by..." logos, and all of them were GIFs. Thus I decided not to > download them, because the idea of having a collection of logos of free > software made of GIF files seemed to be rather weird to me. > If I was you - and had such problems - I would have downloaded and then converted them to some other format. > Greetings, Andrew Brehm. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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