[7160] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: GIF announcement from CompuServe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Tue Jan 10 08:56:11 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:53:29 +0100
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Reply-To: dnew@sgf.fv.com
From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> >Christian Neuss, neuss@igd.fhg.de wrote:
> >Maybe as a result server administrators will configure their server in
> >such a way that connections to compuserve addresses are denied (this is
> >fairly easy). Thus, Compu$erve can be kept from making money by selling
> >access to WWW - when at the same time they screw with Web developers
> >and users through such an incredible move. Grrr.
Folks, if you actually read what was written, Unisys is enforcing their
patent. Compuserve happened to use Unisys technology in GIF. If you're
going to configure your browser to not accept connections, Compuserve
isn't the right target.
On the other hand, you've probably never paid any money to Unisys, have you.
--Darren
