What has been lost in all the noise is that the name of the license is self-descriptive. The license was for VDK 2 compressor source code to run on IBM PVS/SGI hardware.
Your question was what was TMM doing in 1999/2000 not what the software or patent status was right now. As I said, TMM was putting out PRs and was even featured in a news article that they were trying to license the DFMI software. And ignore the 100% incorrect description of it some here are posting.
And of course later on TMM went on to steal copies of the software it had no idea how to use but did raise hundreds of thousands of investor dollars (see 4retire and many others) by lying and saying they owned it. Before finally officially losing in court after convincing themselves they could own it by buying another company that had nothing more than another stolen copy.
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