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From: KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe (Compactor)
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Date: 1 Sep 90 15:51:33 GMT
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Another solution might be to wait a while longer until the FSF (GNU) folks
get their compression software sorted out.

They plan on using Shannon-Fano trees rather than LZW, which Unisys claim to
have a patent on the algorithm (rather than just the implementaion they
describe). The FSF method would be completly free.

Software patents are bad news, this one particularly so.


Has Allandin started paying their dues to Unisys?

Kevin Purcell             | kpurcell@liverpool.ac.uk
Surface Science Centre    |
Liverpool University      | Omit needless words.