Re: MacShrinkit

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <990063648.3b032c20639b5@public.webmail.cotse.com>,
 <penman@cotse.com> wrote:
>Hehehe, I forgot about that, QC--thanks!
>
>For those of you who don't know the refernce, Shrinkit is based on
>an alogrythm named, using the intials of it's developers, LZH.

LZW.

>Unisys now owns the copyrights to that alogrythm,
Patents, and they always have.  IBM owns a patent to the same
algorithm, maybe you could license that one.

>big bucks for it's use.  We can still distribute current versions
>of Shrinkit and Shrink II (as well as the AppleWorks based utilities
>developed by Doug Gum which are now freeare) since they were
>developed PRIOR to Unisys deciding to enforce their rights.

They could stop that as well, if they wanted to.

>royalities - would be in direct violation of their express
>wishes.

Cry me a river.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."