Am 06. May, 2002 schwätzte George Toft so:

> I gues smost people don't remember the outright theft (not a fully-
> owned subsidiary) by Microsoft of the Stac Electronics Stacker disk
> compression code.  Stqac sued, MSFT lost.  They had to pull if from
> distribution.  DOS 6.22 used the MSFT version - DOS 6.0 and 6.2 had
> the Stac code.
>
> This was almost 10 years ago.

That was before I did computers.

http://www.vaxxine.com/lawyers/articles/stac.html
http://www.base.com/software-patents/articles/stac.html

ciao,

der.hans
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