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Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by amadvance on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:50PM (#3228704)
Ridiculous is not the patent, but the patent system that accepted it.
Re:A ridiculous patent for arbitrary compression by seagaia on Saturday November 12, 2011 @09:39PM (#3229652)
True. It's also a bit frustrating, reading other stuff on gzip (from where I found this), that the author of gzip wasn't able to make it run as fast as possible because of patented algorithms. Sort of disappointing.