Z:gnu-www-ja-danger-of-software-patents--8b2d59-He wrote this program, he rele/en

He wrote this program, he released it, and in 1985 a patent was issued on that algorithm. But the patent holder was cunning and didn't immediately go around telling people to stop using it. The patent holder figured, &ldquo;Let's let everybody dig their grave deeper.&rdquo; A few years later they started threatening people; it became clear we couldn't use Compress, so I asked for people to suggest other algorithms we could use for compressing files.