On 29-Aug-01, 23:08 (CDT), John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is
> blithely in gzip.  Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of
> patents WRT non-free.

You're confused. There are plenty of GIF viewers in us/main. The issue
is (compressed-) GIF writers. Gzip doesn't generate .Z (compress) files,
but gunzip will de-compress them. What's the inconsistency?

Steve

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