On Monday 29 January 2007 22:15, John Andersen wrote:
Seems to me that the GIF issue died because the patent died, which will also happen to mp3 patents circa 2011 give or take a year or two. My point is that most folks today do not make GIFs. The whole patent thing forced (and I'm thinking digital cameras here) to store the camera data as JPEG. So today the GIF is mostly dead. Yes mp3 is out there today... but long before the patent dies folks will shift to ogg--- at least that is my prediction.
PS Thanks for the links on JPEG... I enjoyed reading them... and I did not know that there are *still* claims out there against it... SOFTWARE PATENTS MUST DIE -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org