Z:gnu-www-ja-patent-reform-is-not-enough--940f8c-In the early 90s we desperatel/en

In the early 90s we desperately needed a new free program for compression, because the old de-facto standard &ldquo;compress&rdquo; program had been taken away from us by patents. In April 1991, software developer Ross Williams began publishing a series of data compression programs using new algorithms of his own devising. Their superior speed and compression quality soon attracted users.