Re: Latest UNISYS LZW patent nonsense -- $5,000 for every web site

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

   Well, UNISYS is up to it again. They want $5,000 (count 'em: five
   THOUSAND DOLLARS) from *every* web site that uses GIFs, TIFFs, or PDF
   files with LZW compression.

Well, that's the end of the GIF format.  I predict that everyone's
going to move to PNGs if Unisys really follows up on this.

Unisys is probably trying to jack up their patent profits for now
since the patent expires in, IIRC, 2002.