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From: |
Dora Scilipoti |
Subject: |
www/philosophy stallman-mec-india.html |
Date: |
Tue, 08 May 2012 15:28:37 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 12/05/08 15:28:37
Modified files:
philosophy : stallman-mec-india.html
Log message:
A couple of minor fixes.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
Patches:
Index: stallman-mec-india.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- stallman-mec-india.html 20 Mar 2012 10:24:51 -0000 1.18
+++ stallman-mec-india.html 8 May 2012 15:28:24 -0000 1.19
@@ -371,11 +371,12 @@
have GZIP, and a lot of people use GZIP. So, in that one case it was
considerable work but we were able to do it, to avoid that patent.</p>
-<p> But in the 80's, Compuserv defined an image format called GIF and used
+<p> But in the 80's, CompuServ defined an image format called GIF and used
LZW compression in defining it. Well, of course once the uproar about
these patents became known, people defined another image format using a
different compression algorithm. They used the GZIP algorithm, and that
-format is called PNG format, which I suppose means PNG is Not GIF.</p>
+format is called PNG format, which I suppose means
+“PNG is Not GIF.”</p>
<p> But there was a problem: lots of people had already started using
GIF format, and there were many programs that could display GIF format
@@ -2123,7 +2124,7 @@
<p> Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/03/20 10:24:51 $
+$Date: 2012/05/08 15:28:24 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/philosophy stallman-mec-india.html,
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