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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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