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Article #74914compress algorithm patent
From: david carlton
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 19:16
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 1991 19:16
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over the summer, there was lots of discussion about the possibility that compress might no longer be legal, since some company had a patent on the algorithm used in it and was threatening to enforce it. the FSF was saying that they might no longer use compress, people were wondering what would happen to compressed news transfers, etc. but the whole thing seems to have died down. does anybody know what happened with that? david carlton carlton@husc8.harvard.edu "Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality." - Kate Millett, from _Flying_.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,82227382ca06ee7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-27 07:15:24 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!hsdndev!husc6!carlton From: carlton@husc8.harvard.edu (david carlton) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: compress algorithm patent Message-ID: <CARLTON.91Jan26141644@husc8.harvard.edu> Date: 26 Jan 91 19:16:44 GMT Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: Citizens for Boysenberry Jam Lines: 14