Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--9e162a-But there because the job peop/en

But there because the job people wanted to do was not to simply compress data but to make an image that people could display with their software, it turned out extremely hard to switch over to a different algorithm. We have not been able to do it in 10 years! Yes, people use the gzip algorithm to define another image format, once people started getting threatened with law suits for using GIF files. When we started saying to people stop using GIF files, switch over to this, people said &ldquo;We can't switch. The browsers don't support the new format yet&rdquo;. The browser developers said &ldquo;We're not in a hurry about this. After all, nobody is using this file format&rdquo;.