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Just one point of interest is that Unisys only attempted to charge for the compression of data not the playback. So, browsers were never subject to the licensi
by koblas 17y ago
Just one point of interest is that Unisys only attempted to charge for the compression of data not the playback. So, browsers were never subject to the licensing fees that Unisys was asking for, only products like Photoshop which created/compressed data.
Also, they were nice enough to grandfather many programs so things like the PBM tools were not subject to licensing fees.
- btilly 17y agoThat was not out of any sense of generosity. That was because their patent clearly only applied to a (good) method for compressing gifs. Therefore their patent did not apply to creating or reading gifs.