AW: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
Behrens, Thorsten (Thorsten.Behrens.10@Hannover-Stadt.de)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:33:26 +0100
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> Von: David Weinehall[SMTP:tao@acc.umu.se]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Dezember 1998 13:48
> An: Mike A. Harris
> Cc: Ben Greear; Linux Kernel mailing list
> Betreff: Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of
> Linux
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Ben Greear 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.)
> >
> > The existing Netscape 4.x releases support PNG just fine. I
> > dunno about IE3/4 though. Can anyone test IE3 and IE4 for PNG
> > support?
>
IE4 does, IE3 does not.
>OmniWeb v3 (and v2.x for that matter) supports PNG. :)
>
>/David Weinehall
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