Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Ben Greear (greear@cyberhighway.net)
Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:54:35 -0700


Richard Stallman wrote:

> This is why www.gnu.org does not use GIFs--to remind people that the
> community needs to move away from that format. The net can still
> escape from the grip of the LZW patents, if the popular browsers can
> be made to support PNG.

Looks like the new Netscape layout engine, "Gecko" will support
PNG.

http://www.webtools.com/story/browsers/TLS19981223S0005

I don't know about Opera and IE, but if Netscape has it, and it is
a standard, the others shouldn't be far behind!

(Or so I hope.)

Ben

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