On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:29:10PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:22:47AM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > > Still, it makes us look like turkeys so it should be fixed. > > > > How? I don't think going back to GIFs would be a good idea. > > > > Maybe we can make the images non-transparent? Bombe? > > > Uhm, no, not with that background. > > So what should we do about it? > > a) Put a note in the README and somewhere on the web site that netscape > > before v.7 may have problems with the web interface > > b) change the background > > c) go back to GIFs (potential patent issues, as well as being > > fractionally larger) > > I think c) is the most pragmatic option, the whole patent issue is > purely theoretical, and even if the LZW people DO try to enforce > it, the targets will be, if anything, Microsoft and Netscape, not > us. They have tried before. > > I don't think it is a good enough reason to make our users suffer > > We have to resist the temptation to use Freenet to make political > points. Imagine I suddenly decided to stick a "Vote Bush" slogan > on the Freenet UI - people would obviously complain about it. The > same should be true of technical issues such as the GIF patent > debate. Those who donated to this project and therefore are > paying Matthew to work on Freenet did not donate to the "Burn All > GIFs" project, regardless of whether we independently think it is > a good idea. If we can do it without aversely affecting Freenet, > then fine, but this clearly does aversely affect the software. We also happen to be required to obey the law of the land, and limit our liability to spurious, possibly malicious, but technically winnable lawsuits. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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