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From: Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:32:13 +0100
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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