Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--9a9549-When I saw this, I thought we'/en

When I saw this, I thought we'd better get a copy of this patent and see if it's a problem, and it turned out to cover exactly the algorithm that we were about to release. So this program was killed one week before it was released. And in fact that person, that patent holder, had not invented a better method, because in fact it wasn't new. But that doesn't matter, he had a monopoly.