From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 2: 2:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 02:02:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2282E37B402 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBCA2R104172; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:02:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:02:27 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Message-ID: <20001212020225.A16205@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:33AM +0000 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Cliff Sarginson [001212 01:34] wrote: > Hello, > I am educating my son in the ways of non-MS software :) > Is there a port of anything available for making > animated GIFs ? I guess you can do it with the GIMP, but that is way too > complex for him (and for me!) When I read "It's that time of year. GIF files." I thought you were referrnig to "Burn all GIFs day". Unfortunetly the GIF encoding scheme is patetended by a company called Unisys, which didn't enforce the patent until it was in use everywhere. It's not thier fault, apparently they didn't know the compression scheme was thiers until everyone was using it, however they also didn't mention it when the designer had an article up about it that there was a patent pending. Tell your kid to "just say no to GIFs". I'm sure there's a better format out there, avi maybe? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message