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Weren't there also (alleged) patents on arithmetic coding back then? Huffman coding had that as an advantage, too, especially when GNU were looking for an alter
by carey 10y ago
Weren't there also (alleged) patents on arithmetic coding back then? Huffman coding had that as an advantage, too, especially when GNU were looking for an alternative to Unix' compress program.
- TD-Linux 10y agoYes there were. JPEG was also affected, and most decoders still don't support the optional arithmetic mode.