David BlumeNow that all the GIF patents have expired and Unisys's extreme patent enforcement is over, the file format is so common that it's become the Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year.
Unisys and LZW patent enforcement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement
Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012 is ‘to GIF’
Unisys and LZW patent enforcement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement
Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012 is ‘to GIF’