Eric S. Raymond -- Are you ready for Burn All GIFs Day? | Linux Today

Eric S. Raymond — Are you ready for Burn All GIFs Day?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 31, 1999

Are you ready for Burn All
GIFs Day?
. On November 5, webmasters all over the world will
convert their sites to eliminate all GIFs. Please join this effort
and show Unisys that the net will not tolerate its sleazy attempt
at a $5000-per-site shakedown based on the LZW patent.

By converting your site on or before November 5th, you will also
send a message to hostile software patent-holders that the net will
actively resist future attempts to torpedo open-source software
with “submarine patents”.

For tools to make converting your entire site easy, see the
gif2png home
page
.


Eric S. Raymond

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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