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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
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Subject: Re: Mail handler that uses compressed storage?
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Date: 16 Aug 90 01:13:54 GMT
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Kevin E Cosgrove writes:
>>                                          It presently uses the dreaded
>>"compress", but because it's a script you can change that.
>
>OK, why is "compress" dreaded?

Read gnu.announce .

Apparantly, Unisys Corp. is saying that the alogarithm used by compress
(LZT) was developed by Unisys and is now seeking a patent for it. According
to them, it's "their" code and they're gonna make people pay to use it.
All this after many years when peole have been using it freely. Until I
heard about this, I thought compress was public domain or freely distributed
BSD or AT&T code. Not even PKZIP is safe now.
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