ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:31:33 -0500
"Jon 'maddog' Hall" <maddog at li.org> wrote:

> 
> >   It's friggen insane that they're choosing to enforce the patent NOW,
> > after so many years.
> > 
> 
> No, I call it the "Unisys theory".
> 
> Many years ago Hoffman encoding was used for the AT&T pack(1) command.
> AT&T used it, BSD used it, Sun used it, etc.  and it had been published
> in many books.  It was a first-year computing problem to write a Hoffman
> encoder and decoder.
It is also interesting that the Huffman algorithm was published in a
number of computer science books and was originally published in 1952. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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