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by jandrese
760 days ago
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With a readily available (and some would argue superior) protocol just sitting right there it was the most boneheaded of decisions. It was worse than when Unisys started getting all litigious with GIF and forced the creation of PNG, in this case the obvious alternative was already in widespread use which made the switch extremely easy. |
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In: https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...
> “That socially killed Gopher,” [Bob] Alberti says of the licensing fiasco.
I knew Bob (via Scepter of Goth) and feel sad that the University made such bad choices.