>GIFS are a dumb, limited file format, and in the end this is why they are important: >They do not belong to anyone. This may be true now, but for the major

>GIFS are a dumb, limited file format, and in the end this is why they are important: >They do not belong to anyone. This may be true now, but for the majority of its lifetime GIF did not belong to everyone, due to Unisys's patent on LZW.