Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:13:39 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Message-ID: <E145mRH-00060w-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> * Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> [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? > Patents .. patents bah ! They even want to patent my genes :( Ok, i told him to say no to heroin etc. I will add GIF's to the list.. What else is good for animations ? Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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