On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday July 18 2002 05:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > That's ok, we can use .png and ignore the companies that require > > royalties. It's a bit late in the game to play the royalty card. My > > web pages will serve up just as well in png, thank you very much. > > Take any .gif file and just rename it as a .png, you'll get the same > image when you open it (or v'versa). You can also take M$ .ico's and > convert them to .gif's or call'em .png's. > > They're not layin claim to the extension. They're tryin' to claim > right to the algorithm. Long time ago somebody tried to claim .gif's > algorithm too, ...still out there. This deal is probly the same IMO. > More worrisome is M$'s recent stakes on openGL. They've got the bucks > for the lawyer$ that can make anything become true. > > ... what I wanna know is why all these suck a$$ co's claim to reside > in Texas? That's really a bigger deal .... to me anyhow. Embarrassing. > Bad enough that Dell and Compaq live here ;( At least they all seem to > congregate in the lately yankee parts around Austin (and Dallas). > > More claims than quality ... in TX that's always called 'phony -mf > B$'. In this case tho, I believe it's more'a "don't let your mouth > write a check your butt cain't cash" deal. Your images are safe. > ..... well maybe, unless Sony (another phony -mf b$ co.) decides to > provide the lawyer$, to protect their stake in this johnny come lately > claim. > > Sony, Micro$oft, Dell, Compaq ..... if y'all would just quit buyin > their junk ... err stuff, they wouldn't have the money for all the > phony lawyer$ ... and their damn TV commercials.
makes me wonder what will happen to uncle Billy's Billions if the value is still all M$ stock options and they make M$ account for their accounting as well as we got worldcom and enron to account fo where the money went....
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