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>> Except that, of course, all of this is nonesense. In reality, as soon
>> as you dare to *touch* LZW, the lawers will say "hey, that's
>> patented", and threated to sue you off the face of the Earth. The fact
>> that technically you haven't infringed anything is irrelevant. FUD.
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> Well, that's true, yes. But not really relevant to the discusion of the
> legalities. I'm still not a lawyer, btw.
The number of technologies on the planet which never really take off
because people keep muttering "oh, that *might* be patented..." is silly.
But sure, arguably the fact that you can shut down a company just by
*threatening* to sue them is a flaw of the justice system itself, not
patent law specifically...
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