Nigel Stewart wrote:

> >   I have made a gif-viewer myself. They can sue me if they want.
>
> I put a freeware windows based GIF to PNG converter online about
> 2 years ago, and I still havn't heard from Unisys.  It simply
> decodes GIF and encodes PNG - surely a violation of Unisys's vague
> patent claims.

No, not surely. Many informed people believe that their patent can only
be applied to the creation of GIF images, not the reading of them. Their
claims might have creation nailed down, but my personal opinion is that
if they ever leaned on someone doing GIF-reading only, they'd end up
losing in court and thus undermine their own efforts and patents.

(remember, I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the web)

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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