[7124] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: The GIF format as intellectual property
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Litchfield)
Mon Jan 9 19:02:04 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 00:59:01 +0100
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Reply-To: litch@InterLink.NET
From: litch@InterLink.NET (Robert Litchfield)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>None of this is rocket science. If those three things can be pushed forward
>with a minimum of fuss, and no time wasted fighting with Compuserve and/or
>Unisys, I think the Web could be using JPEG and GNIF as its primary format
>within two months. We'd also show that the internet isn't all flame and no
>action - that kind of concerted movement around an obstacle would prove a
>substantial warning to anyone else who thinks of playing this kind of legal
>game in the future.
As an owner of a company that is just finishing up setting up it's own web
server, I will agree with what has been said. It will not hurt for us to
just simply move away from gif and adopt JPEG...it will provide for faster
WWW for those on a SLIP account...and these numbers are growing.
I will vote for the change :)
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