RE: FLASH: FLASH (OT) giff's and the Law

[Cummins, Rob]

> Surely it's the makers of GIF readers like Internet Explorer and Netscape 

> Navigator that would really pay license fees.

> 

> Trying to get companies to pay silly fees for using GIFs is ridiculous as

> you say and totally unenforceable. All that would happen is another

> company

> will set up offering free GIF -> Their format conversions and make money

> out

> of advertising. Then that company Unisys won't make jack shit.

> 

> It's just a case of a company getting greedy

> 

> 

This rumour was started by Slashdot.org about a month ago, a statement that

they almost immediately retracted. Anyone who's interested, go to:


http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/31/0143246.shtml


And let me just state that the notion that Unisys were going to try to sue

anyone who used a gif, was never the issue. It was just the typical quixotic

linux crusaders response to a fairly reasonable request by Unisys.


Alias|Rob



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