Re: Syndicate: Burn All GIFs Day (fwd)

[Jeremy Welsh <Jeremy.Welsh@trdkunst.no>]

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>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:33:21 -0500
>To: Jeremy Welsh <Jeremy.Welsh@trdkunst.no>
>From: Fast Forward <FF@MrFastForward.com>
>Subject: Re: Syndicate: Burn All GIFs Day (fwd)
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>jay dub...........
>
>>>Unisys Corporation, owner of the patent for GIF technology, is asking
>>>for a FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR license fee from Web authors who use GIF
>>>files on their sites
>
>This part actually is incorrect. They are not charging Web site
>authors (though the first letters they sent out were clumsily worded,
>leading some to believe that they were). They want to collect
>royalties from authors of Web tools that use their LZW compression
>code in creating GIFs.
>