Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--d464bc-So GIF was a dangerous trap fo/en

So GIF was a dangerous trap for a large part of our community. We thought we had an alternative to GIF format, namely JPEG, but then somebody said, &ldquo;I was just looking through my portfolio of patents&rdquo;&mdash;I think it was somebody that just bought patents and used them to threaten people&mdash;and he said, &ldquo;and I found that one of them covers JPEG format.&rdquo;