Re: Unisys and LZW

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From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 00:43

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blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
> Yes that's a Bad Thing, and yes, that's the way things work today.

<< begin pleasant fantasy mode >>

	What if 50 people a day wrote letters to the president of Unisys
telling him that unless he drops this silly LZ patent thing, we're all
going to boycott his products.  I mean, I mean, could you imagine 50 people
a day just writing letters to the president of Unisys?

<< end pleasant fantasy mode >>
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"

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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Unisys and LZW
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