Newsgroups: comp.compression
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: ARJ and patents
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 20:54:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.205458.14422@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Apr25.004117.20744@world.std.com> <22550@yunexus.YorkU.CA>

Actually, there's a strange benefit to all these patents on specific
compression methods.

They seem to be encouraging lots of development of superior compression
methods.   Without the patents, there would be little incentive to make
methods that are just a tiny bit better or a tiny bit faster.  Now there
is -- and the cumulative tiny bits add up.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473