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Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 113
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doom-editing-digest Sunday, 8 January 1995 Volume 01 : Number 113
Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Re: WinDEU 32
Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
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From: Jeremy Blackman <ranma@eskimo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 17:53:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Raphael Quinet wrote:
> I have some bad news. On Dec 29th, 1994, Compu$erve who owns the patent
> for the GIF format has decided that from now on, all programs that use
> this image format must acquire a license from them. Programmers who want
> to obtain this license will have to pay royalties which amount to 1.5
> percent of the price or $0.15 for each copy of the program, whichever is
> the _greater_.
>
> This effectively kills all freeware and most shareware programs using the
> GIF format and the LZW technology for image compression!
>
> For more information about this, you can read the following newsgroups:
Also check the business section of Tuesday's New York Times, it had a
fairly good article.
> patent, and BMP but I'm not sure about its status). I'm still hoping that
BMP is the property of Microsoft, but my friend at Microsoft, while this
is not an official announcement, tells me that Microsoft has no plans to
restrict use of either BMP or the other graphics format they own, TIFF.
Again, this is just a comment from a random Microsoft employee I happen
to know, not a statement to the press or public, but I just asked on
behalf of this group...BMP would be a good way to go, cause it's probably
the second-most supported format.
- --- [sig deleted due to spammy random-quote and lazy programmer who
didn't want to rerun MailQuote] ---
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From: BANE <memmon01@solix.fiu.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 21:14:40 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Raphael Quinet wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> I have some bad news. On Dec 29th, 1994, Compu$erve who owns the patent
> for the GIF format has decided that from now on, all programs that use
> this image format must acquire a license from them. Programmers who want
> to obtain this license will have to pay royalties which amount to 1.5
> percent of the price or $0.15 for each copy of the program, whichever is
> the _greater_.
Yea, Compu$erve has shot themselves in the foot. Do they think anyone is
going to give them a dime to use their format? No. People will simply
switch to other formats, jpg format will become more popular, or a new
format similar to gif will be created.
Such high-handed tactics from someone like Compu$erve who is already
known for their overinflated pricing (hence the $ in the name), is absurd.
Let them have their gif format, no one else wants it.
Michael Emmons.
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From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 19:53:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Re: Copmu$erve raping programmers -
Would there be a problem moving over to PCX format? As 8-bit image formats
it's pretty good (bulkier than GIF), and it stores an internal palette.
My personal opinion is that Compu$erve fucked this whole thing up and "we"
(the shareware/freeware/general programmers) were acting in good faith. They
should have to eat the money.
ObDOOMEditing: I still want a "shoot-off" lightswitch!
Richard
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From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 23:52:25 -0500
Subject: Re: WinDEU 32
CTL3D32.DLL didn't come with Win32s v1.2, but with OLE?
>
>> WinDEU32 is missing the CTL3D32.DLL..DLL...
> Don't you get that when you install Win32S? I'm using 1.2 w/ OLE, and
>I got it when I installed it..
>--
>Brent Metz -- bmetz@gcr.com & bmetz@tjhsst.edu
>WWW : http://www.tjhsst.edu/home/earth/bmetz/
>
>
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From: Kapi <kapis-p@darksun.cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 13:51:57 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
So I guess Compu$erve will have to go after GNU Foundation since ton of
software that uses the GIF format is protected by the GNU public license.
It will be interesting to see how they do that.
- -Kapi
- --
Piotr Kapiszewski HOME: kapis-p@darksun.cs.buffalo.edu
Originator: darksun OFFICE: kapis-p@cedar.buffalo.edu
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From: "Chris Campbell (ME)" <ccampbel@suntan.eng.usf.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 17:46:59 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Bad news for all programmers - using GIF means $$$!
Why can't I find WinDEU? I looked at ftp.montefiore.ulg.ac.be in
/pub...There is no DOOM or DOOM2 directory! Anywhere at this site!
Also, where can I find DoomCAD 5.x?
Thanx in advance,
C. S. Campbell
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