>> 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.
> 
> 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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