Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:14:42 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: ?????? ?????? <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: LZW patent expired Message-ID: <20030620131442.GS24175@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030620124038.GA99431@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030620145936.B2774@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20030620130555.GA98549@nagual.pp.ru>
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--00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:05:55PM +0400, ?????? ?????? wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 14:59:36 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:40:39PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > > > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=3DPTO1&Sect2=3DHITOFF= &d=3DPALL&p=3D1&u=3D/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=3D1&f=3DG&l=3D50&s1=3D%5C'4,558= ,302%5C'.WKU.&OS=3DPN/4,558,302&RS=3DPN/4,558,302 > > >=20 > > > So we may start removing WITH_*_LZW_* knobs in ports. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Only the US patent expired, the European and the Japanese patents will > > not expire until sometime in 2004. >=20 > Since we are USA-based, we can remove knobs immediately now and not wait > every other country. And make it difficult for European users to install ports without patented technology they do not want to use? I do not follow your logic. --Stijn --=20 Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" --00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+8wjCY3r/tLQmfWcRArNMAKCTVylmuyc/4W0QNwvimYIgkUvOewCfaUrv Y2vBLLkPrQVQXzBCpI+J9Iw= =cQZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --00sTfE/IIAT5d2r5--
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