Pardon my failing memory, but if memory serves, Microsoft lost that
argument and the court case, and was assessed serious damages, a
couple of hundred million!
Stacker is still a major player, because Microsoft did what they
always do when they are losing -- they "invested in" Stacker. So,
LZS (the compression algorithm in question) is still widely used,
by Microsoft.
Oh, and the Stacker folks took the M$ money and spun off "hi/fn".
Ed Gerck wrote:
>
> ... Stacker won in part, but lost
> a lot. As an aside, the then market leader (Stacker), now
> is no longer even a player.
>
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