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Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.

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On 24/08/16 11:32, Rich wrote:
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21457/the-gif-is-dead-long-live-the-gif/
>
> Quoting from the URL above:
>
>    November 5, 1999, was Burn All GIFs Day. Had you visited its homepage
>    that Friday, you would have seen the movement's game plan laid out as
>    plainly as its name: "On Burn All GIFs Day, all GIF users will gather at
>    Unisys and burn all their GIF files." This, alongside a selection of
>    pointedly anti-GIF imagery - all proudly PNG files.
>
>    Despite the obvious joke of setting files on fire, acknowledged with a
>    winking plea to "extinguish all GIFs before leaving the vicinity," the
>    anger was real and the mission was earnest: to free the web from the
>    scourge of the GIF once and for all.

The Unisys GIF patent has expired[*], but folks still want to burn them 
for old times sakes.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html

* - read the footnote.

-- 
Adrian C

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The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 10:32 +0000
  Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-24 14:32 +0100
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 16:39 +0000
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-25 01:29 +0000
      Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Antoine Delatour <bin.bin1@live.fr> - 2016-08-27 13:55 +0200
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:42 +0100
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-27 19:56 +0000
          Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2016-08-29 14:09 +0100
            Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:33 -0500
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-29 20:37 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:59 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 20:05 -0700
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-08-30 10:16 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-08-30 18:20 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 19:59 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:03 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 20:38 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-31 12:35 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-08-31 19:03 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 22:11 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-09-01 09:21 +0300
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:44 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-08-29 20:24 -0400
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Zed <zed@blah.invalid> - 2016-08-30 11:19 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:04 +0200

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