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Re: compress algorithm patent

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From: Dan Bernstein
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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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: compress algorithm patent
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Date: 29 Jan 91 00:27:24 GMT
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