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From: dhesi@sun505.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: rumor: LZW patented by Unisys
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Date: 12 Oct 89 01:54:58 GMT
References: <1989Oct9.205917.13123@attdso.att.com>
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In article <1989Oct9.205917.13123@attdso.att.com> tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) writes:
>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 . . .

Stale news;  did the Katt just figure this out?

LZW was patented several years ago by people at Univac.  Univac doesn't
exist anymore, and in the confusion of Univac becoming Unisys, nobody
bothered to worry about enforcing the patent.

Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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