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sam wrote:
> its what the page itself said when javascript was turned off...
OK I see

Ron wrote:
> I have the impression that the patent on GIF has expired, and it is now free 
> of
> licencing requirements.
> From memory, there were two patents concerned, one from Unisys and one
> other.  One has expired and I think the other one also has or is about to
> expire.

Sounds good. Then only reaming problem in the gif thing is that gif do
not do photos very well since it is only 256 colors. I found some
Linux tools for gif animation
1. CLI:
http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
2. Gimp can do it.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1664.html