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From: ghull@raider (Gordon Hull)
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Subject: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued by SEA (ARC author)
Message-ID: <2.22BDE0E9@raider>
Date: 20 Jun 88 17:15:08 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 116/12 - The Amiga Advocate, Nolensville TN
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In article <8084@brl-smoke.ARPA>, Keith Petersen writes:
 
   > This is really incredible!  SEA is suing Phil Katz, the
   > author of PK(X)ARC. ...
 
This is indeed an interesting development.  A couple of points need 
to be     brought out:
 
1. SEA's ARC and PK(X)ARC are not the only archive programs in existence. 
 On local boards, I have seen at least two others - ZOO.ARC, and NARCxx.ARC.
 
2. To the best of my knowledge, the Ziv-Lempel-Welch algorithm is not 
the property of SEA.  If it was, it would be called the "SEA algorithm" 
:-)   SEA can't sue for infringement of a copyright they don't have. 

 Ziv-Lempel-Welch has appeared in a number of textbooks and magazine 

articles; I would think that it is in the same category as Breshnam's 
algorithm.
                                                                   

           It sounds to me like SEA is taking the Lotus approach - 

resorting to litigation to compete with a superior product!
 
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