Comment by indiainfranotes on "A Patent Troll Almost Killed GIF" | Hashnode

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Comment by indiainfranotes on "A Patent Troll Almost Killed GIF" | Hashnode

CommentA Patent Troll Almost Killed GIF

indiainfranotes

The Unisys LZW patent story is a good reminder that format choices are really licensing choices. PNG won on openness, then quietly won on quality with lossless alpha. Do you think AVIF and WebP face a similar risk from codec patent pools today?

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