RE: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

From: Eric Sandall (eric@sandall.us)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 19:09:42 EST


LA Walsh said:
> ----
> I asked WinZip for plugin support so users could add
> arbitrary compressions formats (I specifically mentioned 'bz2').
> I even offered to do it myself if they wanted to give me NDA access to
> the code.... and was told that they have thought about
> extensibility but had no plans to support it in the forseeable
> future. Consider it a benefit of a closed source product.
> They control your file format, they control your business and personal
> decisions...nice.
>
> Anyone up for writing a Free version of Winzip to replace
> the "cooperative" Winzip authors' version (was was up for making
> minor mod's, but not starting from scratch).
>
> -linda

FYI, WinRAR (http://www.rarsoft.com) supports BZ2 files. ;)

-Sandalle

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