What Is The Future of PNG?

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Posted by Hemos on Monday June 9, 2003 @12:07AM from the life-of-its-own dept.

miladus writes "The GIF patent (held by Unisys) will expire on June 20. C|Net wonders whether that will also mean that PNG "will lose its original reason for being". Remember Burn All GIFs? " My hope would be that at this point PNG can stand on its own technical merits, rather then on ideological merits.

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i've burned all my gifs by jellybear · 2003-06-09 00:10 · Score: 4, Funny

to cd
Not SCO! by bazik · 2003-06-09 00:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Dont let SCO buy the patent! They might sue everyone who ever saved a GIF file!

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Choosy mothers choose GIF! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 00:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Not PNG.
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1. Re:Choosy mothers choose GIF! by fgb · 2003-06-09 00:38 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Beware of geeks bearing GIFs!
Re:Let's face it by Surak · 2003-06-09 00:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I know. I even see ANSI graphics now and then. ;)

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ought to be enough by gylle · 2003-06-09 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

One bit, that ought to be enough for anybody... :-)
The PNG I want to see by utoddl · 2003-06-09 00:39 · Score: 1, Funny

rather then on ideological merits
I went to saa e PNG thet would ba used by whetavar thay usa to post storias to sleshdot thet will taka tha pleca of then end than end meka tham hot pink, so whan thay raviaw en erticla thay heva to meka sura ell tha as end es era right.
I not trolling per se, I'm just trolling in general...
What is the future of PNG? by FrostedWheat · 2003-06-09 00:51 · Score: 3, Funny

What is the future of PNG?

PONG
Re:Except, of course... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 00:55 · Score: 0, Funny

>MNG support has been dropped from Mozilla in recent builds

How can you tell? Don't tell me you actually found a MNG file somewhere?
Re:here's hoping. by ostrich2 · 2003-06-09 00:56 · Score: 2, Funny

Here is a rather funny page (since the author's disbelief and anger at IE's horrible behavior is palpable) which does a good job of explaining the issue, and supplying a few workarounds.

I will say this for the guy: for a non-native english speaker, he got the expletives working perfectly.
Maybe it'll become mainstream someday by Furan · 2003-06-09 01:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Howard Stern was complaining that he couldn't open PNG files this morning.. "Why can't I get a bitmap or a JPEG?"
Re:GIF and PNG are completely different! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 01:13 · Score: 1, Funny

Saying that GIF becoming patent unencumbered is going to reduce use of PNG is like implying that when the original patents ran out on horses & carriages people gave up their cars and reverted.

Somebody had a patent on horses? Was it Monsanto?
Re:Sure by asdfasdfasdfasdf · 2003-06-09 01:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes, but people wouldn't get the joke if I put 72,057,594,037,927,936 * better. :-)
Re:PNGs by Hugonz · 2003-06-09 01:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Tell them to open it in MSN Explorer =)
Re:PNGs by ChristTrekker · 2003-06-09 02:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Send your coworkers the Mozilla installer as an attachment.

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Someone's intellectual property expiring?? by ader · 2003-06-09 02:17 · Score: 2, Funny

You mean they didn't lobby congress to extend patent terms by fifty years retroactively? Jeez, don't they know how to do business in the modern world?!

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Re:problems with PNG by amentia · 2003-06-09 02:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, like when they replaced the Internet with MSN...
Re:Let's face it by sharkey · 2003-06-09 02:59 · Score: 2, Funny

I even see ANSI graphics now and then. ;)
Case in point.

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Re:here's hoping. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-09 07:38 · Score: 1, Funny

Lynx 2.8.2 -- totally broken :)