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-[Acronym[
for __G__raphics __I__nterchange __F__ormat.
+[Acronym]
for __G__raphics __I__nterchange __F__ormat.
A FileFormat useful for block colour images created by CompuServ in the 1980's(?).
-Is famous for Unisys's Submarine Patent. Years after GIF became the defacto standard Unisys turned up one day and said "GIF uses LZW compression, we have a patent on that, we want everyone who has a program to generate GIF files to pay us a royalty." This pissed a lot of people off. Some people got so pissed off they created a file format called [PNG] which has the same target as [GIF] but does everything [GIF] does much much better. Most websites now prefer [PNG] over [GIF] files.
+Is famous for Unisys's Submarine Patent. Years after GIF became the defacto standard Unisys turned up one day and said "GIF uses [
LZW]
compression, we have a patent on that, we want everyone who has a program to generate GIF files to pay us a royalty." This pissed a lot of people off. Some people got so pissed off they created a file format called [PNG] which has the same target as [GIF] but does everything [GIF] does much much better. Most websites now prefer [PNG] over [GIF] files.
