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In some cases, you can find a better algorithm. This may or may not do you any good. Because we couldn't use compress, in the GNU project we started looking for some other algorithm for data compression. Somebody wrote to us saying he had one. He had written a program and he decided to contribute it to us. We were going to release it. Just by chance, I happened to see a copy of the New York Times. It happened to have the weekly patent column in it. I didn't see a copy of the Times more than once every few months. So I looked at it and it said that somebody had got a patent for &ldquo;Inventing a new method of compressing data&rdquo;.