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Article #72932Re: yabba compressor - why not on prep ?
From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 03:48
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 03:48
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>> 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. > 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. I stand corrected; I was thinking of the wrong algorithm. -- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f2583e3214c660a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-11-18 02:53:12 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!ieee.org!sdd.hp.com!mips!mojo.eng.umd.edu!news!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: yabba compressor - why not on prep ? Message-ID: <DJM.91Nov17224818@frob.eng.umd.edu> Date: 18 Nov 91 03:48:18 GMT References: <hfaester.690044596@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <9111141433.AA00494@pop-tarts> <DJM.91Nov14141443@frob.eng.umd.edu> <2570.Nov1606.29.4491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 16 Nov 91 06:29:44 GMT