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-[gzip] [GNU] Zip is a file compression format which the [GNU] project invented because Unix's compression tool 'compress' was [Proprietary] software. As is often the case[1], it was better than the proprietary program which it was designed to replace.
+[gzip] [GNU] Zip is a file compression format which the [GNU] project invented because Unix's compression tool 'compress' was [Proprietary] software. (It used the [LZW] algorithm, which [Unisys] claimed was covered by one of their patents after the algorithm was in wide-spread use)
. As is often the case[1], it was better than the proprietary program which it was designed to replace.
See gzip(1), gunzip(1).
[1] fiasco (a non-proprietary reimplementation of L4, [Linux] (as opposed to [UNIX]),
