Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 03:03:10 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998, Ben Greear wrote:

>> This is why www.gnu.org does not use GIFs--to remind people that the
>> community needs to move away from that format. The net can still
>> escape from the grip of the LZW patents, if the popular browsers can
>> be made to support PNG.
>
>Looks like the new Netscape layout engine, "Gecko" will support
>PNG.
>
>http://www.webtools.com/story/browsers/TLS19981223S0005
>
>I don't know about Opera and IE, but if Netscape has it, and it is
>a standard, the others shouldn't be far behind!
>
>(Or so I hope.)

The existing Netscape 4.x releases support PNG just fine. I
dunno about IE3/4 though. Can anyone test IE3 and IE4 for PNG
support?

RMS would also like to know.

--
Mike A. Harris  -  Computer Consultant  -  Linux advocate


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