Re: False assumptions re: patents

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From: mathew
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 14:21

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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> In article <881@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters)
> > I was intending to address the implication (openly stated elsewhere)
> > that anyone who writes 10 lines of code will be sued for all they
> > posess. Of course that is nonsense.
> 
> LZW compression takes under five lines of APL.

And the use of XOR to display a graphics cursor takes less than ten lines in
almost any sensible language.


mathew

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