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Lack of patent protection did impede progressLack of patent protection did impede progressPosted Jun 21, 2012 1:06 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Lack of patent protection did impede progress by jreiser Parent article: EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation
Come on. LZ-like algorithms were invented separately multiple times - there's nothing complex in the idea of a sliding window. Huffman algorithm was published in freaking 1951, and it leads directly to an idea of the dictionary with a sliding window.
Hell, _I_ invented one variation in high school absolutely independently for my game on ZX-Spectrum and that means there's nothing complex in that.
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