[Haskell-cafe] zigzag data structure

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho antti-juhani at kaijanaho.info
Fri Dec 23 18:28:29 EST 2005


Jakub Hegenbart wrote:
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> 
>> Disclaimer: I was one of the Gzz developers. Later, the project was
>> killed by the patent;
> 
> In Finland? How's that possible? I thought European countries are still
> civilized... :-)

Long story (involving among other things patent offices that disregard
that law). The essence is: Free software knows no borders. It would have
been a major hassle to exclude the USA from any distribution.



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