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Article #74525Compressed distributions
From: Rich Braun
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:05
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 20:05
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There was recently a flap over the use of 'compress', due to a patent infringement lawsuit. I've decided to release a copylefted NFS server for DOS called SOSS using ZOO, rather than compress/tar, because it's clearly in the public domain. But compress does do a better job of smallifying files than ZOO, so I'm wondering: whatever happened to that flap? Has the network community started migrating away from compress? -rich
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b36d145e7151b309,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-04-12 06:19:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!unidui!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!rbraun From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Compressed distributions Message-ID: <7276@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Date: 11 Apr 91 20:05:10 GMT Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 8