Friday,
November 5, 1999, will be (or was, depending on your current
time-space continuum) Burn all
GIFs day, the day all
people should burn their GIFs, either
for real or
virtually.
Why? Because the evil
Unisys company holds the
LZW compression patent which is used to compress GIFs, and Unisys has created the evil plan to charge anybody who created GIFs with
software not covered by an appropriate Unisys
license $5000.
In other words: You no use software we wants, you gives us $5000!
BURN ALL GIFS!!!
(See also: http://burnallgifs.org/)