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Pigdog Journal (Laughable Technology) -- Unisys Is a Bunch of Retards Pigdog Journal (Laughable Technology) -- Unisys Is a Bunch of Retards: "Eventually, with this pressure, EVERYONE is going to ditch GIF in favor of PNG. Web folks will stop asking image software vendors to support GIFs, and the software guys won't want to pay the license fees so they'll just stop supporting GIF." (News and Media) http://pigdog.org/auto/laughable_technology/link/855.html Unisys Demanding License Fees Unisys Demanding License Fees: Unisys, the holder of the LZW data compression patent used in GIF formatted graphics, is taking a hardline against intranet and internet web sites by demanding that they acquire licenses. [MIS Guide About.com] (News and Media) http://mis.about.com/library/weekly/aa082999.htm Fugitive From Justice (Web Techniques, Dec 1999) Fugitive From Justice (Web Techniques, Dec 1999): Account by Lincoln. B. Stein, in Webtechniques. (News and Media) http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/12/webm/ Unisys Not Suing (most) Webmasters for Using GIFs Unisys Not Suing (most) Webmasters for Using GIFs: From Slashdot.org. "If you use GIF graphics created with certain freeware programs, your chosen program uses LZW compression to create GIFs without license to use it, you may be violating a Unisys patent." (News and Media) http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/0143246.shtml