{"id":164,"date":"2004-06-21T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=164"},"modified":"2004-06-21T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T07:20:02","slug":"unisys-gif-patent-almost-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/06\/unisys-gif-patent-almost-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Unisys GIF patent almost gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unisys&#8217; GIF-patents for Europe, for Canada and for Japan all expired this month (18th, 6th and 20th) (read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyz.uklinux.net\/giflzw.php\">here<\/a>). IBM&#8217;s patent -that they will not likely use- still has two more years to go. So what will happen? Will we see any new GIF-development in the near future, or has GIF died since the GIF-tax was introduced? The PNG-alternative did not get the attention and usage it was hoping for: people just started using JPG more and more. If you create an application now that couldn&#8217;t understand GIF or PNG not much complaining would arise, but now create something that can&#8217;t read\/create JPG&#8230; (Fujifilm&#8217;s EX Raw converter for instance!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a strange world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unisys&#8217; GIF-patents for Europe, for Canada and for Japan all expired this month (18th, 6th and 20th) (read here). IBM&#8217;s patent -that they will not likely use- still has two more years to go. So what will happen? Will we see any new GIF-development in the near future, or has GIF died since the GIF-tax <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/06\/unisys-gif-patent-almost-gone\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-27-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}