IBM Quick Reference Guide - 1992

[der Mouse]

>> [PNG] [c]ertainly [has] lots more features [than GIF], which in
>> actually a reason to avoid it, at least to me. [...]
> Man, and I thought _I_ was a curmudgeon! :-)

What's curmudgeonly about that?  Every feature that's present but you
don't need is a feature you can be bitten by.  I didn't see anything in
the original request that called for anything PNG can do but GIF can't,
tipping the scales toward the less featureful of the two.

It's philosophically similar to Occam's Razor, and is the non-security
version of "you can't be cracked through a hole in a daemon you don't
run".

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