Agreed! A friend of a friend spent a quarter million patending a bicycle lock.
Its those damn patend attorneys that suck up the money, the patend fees are
relatively cheap. If you wanna get super-duper rich, program LFReD to replace
lawyers and attorneys.
--Ryan
Terry Brownell wrote:
> Patents have me spooked. I'm turned off by patents and the whole system.
> Amazon has a "Buy one now." button patent. Where does it end? And the cost
> of submitting and defending is out of my budget. Any VC's out there :)
>
> TB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:09 AM
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Rebol and a new compression system.
>
> > my-comments: decompress #{
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> >
> > alan parman wrote:
> >
> > > Terry,
> > > Sounds great! Would have many uses where text is the medium (html, REBOL
> scripts, e-mail, etc).
> > >
> > > However, I will remain politely skeptical until I see it in action.
> > > While I don't have much experience with the mechanics of compression, I
> have read some about it.
> > > And from that I am heartened by your description of giving better
> compression for a specific type of file ("This works only for communication
> using standard english words..."). _A_Lot_ of work has been done in this
> area, and _many_ claims of a better system have been proven false. But, many
> compression schemes are tuned for _any_ type of file (standard zip , PKZIP
> WinZip etc), so claims for a better system for a specific type of file are
> plausible.
> > >
> > > I am openly skeptical about your (implied) claim that you can greatly
> compress an already compressed file ("If a better compression system than
> winzip is used, then the 213 would be even smaller."). While not
> impossible, I would like to see if it is a general phenomenon for any
> English text file.
> > >
> > > Can it be tuned for REBOL scripts?
> > >
> > > I've been toying with using huffman-encoding (thanks RebolForces!) on
> the level of words instead of characters. Is this similar to your scheme?
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