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Re:Perhaps The Copyright Industry Deserves Some Credit by blahedo on Sunday November 13, 2011 @07:30PM (#3232277)
> Graphics Interchange Format... was dropped from every usage all over the net in the blink of an eye and replaced by a fresh-new format named Portable Network Graphics.

If by "in the blink of an eye" they mean "over the course of about a decade, gradually, and with hanging-on remnants even today"....

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Re:Perhaps The Copyright Industry Deserves Some Credit by bad_user on Monday November 14, 2011 @02:18AM (#3233236)
The LZW patent has expired in 2003. GIF usage is now free.

Also, you can probably blame the slow adoption of PNG on Internet Explorer, which dictated what became a standard on the web and what not.

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