Re: False assumptions re: patents

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From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 06:04

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In article <881@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters) writes:
> 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.

---Dan

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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: False assumptions re: patents
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