GIF is Pubic Domain

Rinn · June 19, 2003, 11:41am

Well, it finally happened: Clicka

Sinistral · June 19, 2003, 11:43am

1- That’s an interesting typo
2- I don’t get what the big deal is.

Xelopheris · June 19, 2003, 11:46am

Heheheh, pubic. Anyways, this is better. The next version of the GImp will be able to save as GIFs.

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 12:10pm

i say he did that typo on purpose…

Ren · June 19, 2003, 12:42pm

I don’t get it. So, because a patent expired, they may charge whomever uses gif’s?

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 12:45pm

i hope not, else those sprite requests i made would be for nothing…

Rhaka · June 19, 2003, 12:48pm

<img src=“http://www.rpgclassics.com/staff/tenchimaru/td.gif”> No, they could charge you before, since some company had the patent to .gif. Now it’s public domain, so it’s free to use.

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 12:49pm

wait…i can now abuse .gifs all i want, then?

Xelopheris · June 19, 2003, 12:50pm

It used to be that software writers had to buy a licence to allow users to save as GIF format. Now it’s a freebee.

Cidolfas · June 19, 2003, 12:53pm

Yahoo! R0x0rs! Now we won’t have to change everything on our site to PNGs. 8p

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 12:55pm

and i can keep all the sprites i saved just for these boards!

Rinn · June 19, 2003, 12:57pm

Meh, I’ve done worse typos…

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 1:01pm

like what, exactly?

Rinn · June 19, 2003, 1:04pm

I don’t know exactly, but I know I have. It’s not like I’d remember every typo I’ve made.

Sairan · June 19, 2003, 1:06pm

oh…thought you’d remember the best ones…

Urkani · June 19, 2003, 1:06pm

Originally posted by Cidolfas
Yahoo! R0x0rs! Now we won’t have to change everything on our site to PNGs. 8p

Ah, and you were JUST getting around to doing that as well.

SoulDivider · June 19, 2003, 1:11pm

Originally posted by Epicgamer
I don’t know exactly, but I know I have. It’s not like I’d remember every typo I’ve made.

I would be the smartest man alive if I could remember all my typos

Cidolfas · June 19, 2003, 4:39pm

Originally posted by Urkani
Ah, and you were JUST getting around to doing that as well.

Well… if Compuserve sued us we would… 8p

Wertigon · June 19, 2003, 5:20pm

Who cares? GIF is ancient and PNG owns GIF any day. The only thing PNG can’t handle are animations AFAIK. Everything else PNG got full support for, and most important of all BETTER support than GIFs. GIF only got binary transparency, has suckier compression rates and can only support 256 colors/GIF.

Now PNG on the other hand… Alpha transperencies, 65535 colors, same if not smaller file sizes, and things like that are all reasons why I love it.

Now if only crappy IE would start giving native support to PNG…

Nulani · June 19, 2003, 5:29pm

WooH!
I hope this means the programs which have suffered under that patent gets cheaper: Of course, probably not.