Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/31/23:36:31
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:59:29 -0500, "Damian Yerrick"
<die DOT spammers AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:
>Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression is patented. Does your site mention that Unisys
>(http://www.unisys.com) will own United States patent 4,558,302 on LZW
>compression until at least the year 2003, or that Unisys won't let open
>source software use LZW compression, or that the Free Software Foundation
>(http://www.gnu.org) is boycotting GIF because GIF uses LZW compression and
>Unisys is not nice to copylefters who use the GNU General Public License?
It says this:
"Important note: The compression algorithm described in this
documented has been patented by the company called Unisys. Unisys
presently requires anyone who uses the algorithm in a commercial
application to purchase from them a license to do so."
I'll leave people to draw their own conclusions from that. Personally
I think it's a damn shame that companies are *allowed* to get patents
on this sort of thing.
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>Oh, by the way, iname is the biggest spam generator. When I was
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I never had problems until I started posting on Usenet. Thesedays, I
put up with it; average about one piece of spam a day. The best way to
fight spam is to ignore it.
Davin.
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