The problem is that UNISYS did not enforce the patent in order to make GIF a
widespread format and then... they started asking the "insurance" or else...
Would you like the POVRay team to jump up and tell that everybody use has
ever used POV must pay them for their past, present and future usage (and
having a legal team to enforce their will)?
Solutions:
1) I hate animations: even with 56K modem they are sloooow to load. The
solution? stop loading the file and visit another web site ;-);
2) nowadays all browsers support .PNGs. Use JPEGs for lossy compression and
.PNG for lossless. By the way, JPEG2000 is rumored to be a 2-level standard,
with the lowest level (and low quality) free and the upper one with
royalties.
Alessandro Coppo
a.c### [at] iol it
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