RE: Compressed distributions

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From: cs450a03
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 19:28

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Ozan Yigit wrote:

>The compression itself is Lempel-Ziv, and unless it is LZ77 or a
>derivative [e.g. LZSS in LHA(rc) utility], it too contains an
>algorithm that is patented.

This brings up a rather interesting concept:  How is it possible to
have a patent which covers all algorithms which compute the same
result?

Most curious.

Raul Rockwell

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