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Article #972Re: Unpopular argument: Sending tech jobs abroad is good
From: John R Pierce
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:15
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 06:15
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 04:07:42 GMT, John Serafin <jps@velo.boxmail.com> wrote: >They stole the compression code used in dos 6.something; they did not just >copy the features. they had some kind of a contract with the compression software company who then decided they didn't like the terms, and it landed in court. I forget all the details but it wasn't quite as clear cut as this. It caused the rapid revisioning of 6.20, 6.21, 6.22 (where I think 6.20 had STACKER based compression, then 6.21 had no compression, then they found another company willing to license a different compression that was put in 6.22... but it was all a joke, disk compression was really rather pathetic on FAT16, most of what was being compressed was the cluster slack
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