Post #4by Sum0 » 04.09.2002, 15:24
Well, the GIF compression standard is patented by Unisys and you need to pay a hefty amount to use it in your software. And those cheapskate Linux users (
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) won't pay, so we use .png as a substitute for gif tranparancy. Unfortuantely I can't think of another graphics format that supports animation. Does Unisys's patent cover read-only - eg Celestia - use?
I agree with Astrobot. I grew up on Bryce 2 and it's landscaping capabilites would be very useful in Celestia, surely?
"I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."