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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.180809.16744@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
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- Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <medic.711862598@milton> <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Jul24.152041.28854@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 18:08:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.152041.28854@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
- >In <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- >
- >>medic@milton.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
- >
- >>For what it is worth, The *format* is owned by Compuserve. They just
- >>let folks use it freely. And the standards document says it is pronounced
- >>"jif"...
-
- Since when does someone own a format? Are you telling me that if I encode
- a piece of graphics copyright me into .GIF format that Compuserve owns
- my file?
-
- cjl
-