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Article #72923Re: yabba compressor - why not on prep ?
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 06:29
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 06:29
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In article <DJM.91Nov14141443@frob.eng.umd.edu> djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes: > RMS announced a month or two ago that about a week before the FSF was > planning to release the yabba-based compression program, a patent on > its algorithm was announced. This is, to my knowledge, false. No patents currently cover Y coding or anything else used by my yabba program. (Possible exception: I did unroll some loops, and rumor has it that IBM patented unrolling in 1986. I *hope* this rumor is false.) The recent Gibson-Graybill patent appears to cover some of Ross Williams' LZRW algorithms, which GNU was looking at along with yabba as possible replacements for compress. ---Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f2583e3214c660a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-16 02:56:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!ieee.org!dorm.rutgers.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ames!agate!ucbvax!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: yabba compressor - why not on prep ? Message-ID: <2570.Nov1606.29.4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 16 Nov 91 06:29:44 GMT References: <hfaester.690044596@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <9111141433.AA00494@pop-tarts> <DJM.91Nov14141443@frob.eng.umd.edu> Organization: IR Lines: 13