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From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: rumor: LZW patented by Unisys
Summary: is this true?
Message-ID: <1989Oct9.205917.13123@attdso.att.com>
Date: 9 Oct 89 20:59:17 GMT
Reply-To: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Organization: AT&T DSO-HQ, Morristown, NJ
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According to PC-Week's "Spencer Katt" article of October 2, the LZW
data compression algorithm is patented by Unisys.  Has anybody heard
anything about this?  Things could get messy if this is true . . .

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