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Article #75410Re: Imagine if you couldn't use compress any more
From: Miles ONeal
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 05:22
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 05:22
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vinsci@soft.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
|Someone somewhere pointed out that the patent is for a hardware
|implementation of the LZW algorithm. I don't know if this is so. If it
|is, then I'd suppose the patent is only for this particular way of
|implementing the algorithm in hardware, and *not* for the algorithm
|itself.
No - that was a standard way to get around things. One of the Bell
Labs Boys used that trick to get the part of the unix file permissions
stuff patented (sticky or setid bits, I think).
Miles O'Neal
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,489df72d7df83b95 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-01 22:22:42 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!emory!rsiatl!meo From: meo@rsiatl.UUCP (Miles ONeal) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Imagine if you couldn't use compress any more Message-ID: <3457@rsiatl.UUCP> Date: 2 Aug 90 05:22:42 GMT Organization: Roadkills-R-Us Lines: 16 Posted: Thu Aug 2 06:22:42 1990