Thread: GIF - June 20th
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Old 05-30-2003, 07:54 PM
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Originally posted by HoudiniMan
I think those companies would buy a mass license to include the support for the format in the program code, and not have to pay per-copy. Along those lines i don't think an extra charge was tacked on to each copy's price and i don't think it's there to remove... assuming they would.
They would yes. But lets say photoshop buy a mass licence for GIF, how many people have photoshop? Millions! So it would cost ALOT of money, so they add it onto the photoshop per copy price so that they dont loose money. And to cover the cost of buying their mass licence.
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