mdj wrote:
Simon D. Williams wrote:Mark McDougall wrote:OK, perhaps we're arguing semantics here? There *is* an uncompressed GIF format, the motivation for which derived from the desire to avoid paying royalties to Unisys for the LZW compression scheme.I'd like to avoid paying royalties too ;-)I believe the LZW patent has now expired...
And IBM's LZW patent, which they never enforced, expires this summer. -michael Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."