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What Is The Future of PNG?

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Re:PNGs by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Have you noticed that they stress it incorrectly too?

    English:

    "I couldn't care LESS"

    Merikan:

    "I COULD care less"

    it's a strange business - Merikan English seems to develop via a process of Chinese whispers

    --
    That was classic intercourse!