From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 2:13:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 02:13:44 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ED637B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 145mRH-00060w-00; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:13:39 +0000 To: Alfred Perlstein , Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:13:39 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: 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? > 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