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Originally posted by Stefan
We said it 2 years ago or so, didn't know the thing is going to be free soon. The legallity of supporting gifs was not clear, Unisys only charged the producers of programs that could write gifs. png and mngs are better than gif because they use better compression and allow more options, like mngs can contain jpegs or be 24bit. A problem is that many programs don't support them correctly, Adobe even had problems with png.
The gif format formerly referenced as 'compuserve interchange format' because it was the image format used in the compuserve network, later when it was becoming famous in the internet someone got the idea to charge fees for using it and bought the patents.
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I was just wondering Stefan why is it you don't think the patents will be renewed again?If they don't someone will come along and pick them up and start charging for the use of them. Ehh well Npulse will still convert away from them and will not use gifs or allow them to be submitted to us in levels and such. It's just too much work to convert all of them so if we keep up with it then it's not an issue.We will just maintain the png/mng format and not use gifs.