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Article #74800Re: compress algorithm patent
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 00:27
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 00:27
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In article <21267@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes: > >... Send a polite note to storer@cs.brandeis.edu if you would > >like to see this happen. > to see him release his patent to public, or to allow somebody to implement > his published algorithm and distribute the results?? The latter can be > done without requiring his permission. I am not going to have someone else controlling my code and making money off it. I wrote this program for the public good, not for James Storer's pocket. > Dan, are you absolutely sure this neat Y coding you found has not been > done before? No, I'm not sure. All I can say is that it's not in any of the literature I've seen. > It sounds similar to a dictionary coding technique from > Bentley, Tarjan and others in 1986 CACM It's unrelated. ---Dan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,82227382ca06ee7 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-28 22:39:39 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: compress algorithm patent Message-ID: <13701:Jan2900:27:2491@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 00:27:24 GMT References: <CARLTON.91Jan26141644@husc8.harvard.edu> <6617:Jan2723:16:0991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <21267@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Organization: IR Lines: 23