[ale] News bulletin: The temperature seems to be cooling down in Hell!!!

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:49 -0400, James Baldwin wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:07 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > But the "zip" format is proprietary, closed and requires a license  
> > that
> > is included with Microsoft Office and only available with M$ Office
> > purchase.
> 
> Are you stating that the "zip" format described in this is not .ZIP  
> file format maintained by PKWARE, Inc.?

I would be totally shocked if there were not some M$-only
wrapper/compression/decoding crap somewhere in the process.
> 
> PKWARE publishes the standard here: http://www.pkware.com/company/ 
> standards/
> There is a royalty free license for use of the compression algorithm.
> Licensing information is within the application note for the standard.
> 
> There is a BSD derived licensed version at http://www.info-zip.org
> Licensing information is http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ 
> license.html
> 
> The format is proprietary but open and has been in use on UNIX  
> systems since before gzip.
> 
> For any format of that nature to work appropriately, its going to be  
> required to be proprietary.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft released a different compression  
> algorithm, however, I would be surprised if they called it "zip".
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