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Subject:Re: Fussy Web Developers Use GIFs From:"David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:12:07 -0700
Walker, Arlen P wrote:
>
> ... it's possible that Unisys could decide to commit corporate suicide
> and demand a fee from your visitors for allowing them the privilege of
> using the decompression process.
As I understand it, the "billable" events are:
* Creating the GIF
* Rendering the GIF
It isn't the visitor using the decompression process, but the visitor's
HTML browser. And for *that* the browser maker is supposed to have paid
a fee.
At the other end, the developers of the software with which the GIF was
created (whether originally or by conversion of an image in another
format) are supposed to have paid a fee, as well.
--David
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