Xref: utzoo comp.compression:459 gnu.misc.discuss:2871 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!samsung!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.compression,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Reply to ARJ and Jung are not all they seem Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 22:26:14 GMT References: <1991Apr24.215923.15481@world.std.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: robjung@world.std.com's message of 24 Apr 91 21:59:23 GMT In article <1991Apr24.215923.15481@world.std.com> robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) writes: The UNARJ decompressor may be very similar to AR002, but the LZ77 compressor used in ARJ 2.00 is COMPLETELY NEW, UNPUBLISHED, and probably PATENTABLE. (U.S. patent rights are currently being sought). Then UNARJ is to be avoided like the PLAGUE. the last thing we need is more PATENTED compression algorithms, more entanglements of LAWYERS and COURTS, and vague nasty THREATS to take what had been available as source and HOARD IT AWAY. I'd recommend deleting all your copies of UNARC right now, so that you don't accidentally learn something that Mr. Jung might claim later to be his exclusive property. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 218