On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:49:31AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > A $5K license to use files in a given format? That's directly analogous
> > to M$ saying that anybody distributing Word .doc's must pay them a fee.
> > Or Farenhaufer saying that anyone who has a .mp3 on their system must pay,
> > or any other example of blatant bullshit we would probably start a
> > donation fund to fight this in the courts.
>
> I think they're able to extract money from people who _create_ gifs (hence
> the GNU site being covered with "no gifs due to patent problems); how they
> intend to proove you created the gifs on your website rather than getting
> them from somewhere else is the interesting bit.
Yes, but they are going after the people who are placing GIFs on websites,
assuming that they have created them with unlicensed software and
apparently they want you to prove otherwise.
This is a scam. It's not even a good one. And it has no legal precedence
to back it up---in fact if anything there are decisions to the contrary.
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<marcus> dunham: You know how real numbers are constructed from rational
numbers by equivalence classes of convergent sequences?
<dunham> marcus: yes.
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