From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: New SR E-mag
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:41:04 +0000

|> > Gurth is making assumptions. I don't use PKZip. I use gzip - it's free,
|> > it's as good as PKZip, and it comes with sourcecode. Better yet, it's
|> > available on unix - PKZip *is* *not*.
|>
|> It is for me and for everybody else I know. Whether that's legal or not, I
|> know nor care. My making assumptions about PKZip is because I assume that
|
| So now you're advocating stealing. No, it's not free. It is copyrighted
|and it is not freeware. It costs what... $35+ per copy?
|
| But we can tell you don't mind that theft, nor advocating it. (Ref to
|your "I now nor care" above)

PKzip might not be free-ware, but ZIP and UNZIP are in the public domain and
are capable of unzipping PKzipped files...

(I think they're part of the GNU project, and as they were written in 'C'
they've been ported to MS and most other systems, including the QL (again).

<Rest of rant snippet... Don't you think this has gone on long enough guys?>
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