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From: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PKZ110EU.EXE - Katz's ZIP archive package v1.10, export vers.
Summary: Get a life
Keywords: life, get, one
Message-ID: <1990Apr9.204732.9188@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 20:47:32 GMT
References: <9456.261a444f@ecs.umass.edu> <119@demott.COM> <90097.005423GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET>
Reply-To: brian@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Brian Hoffman)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <90097.005423GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes:
>In article <119@demott.COM>, kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) says:
>>
>>In article <9456.261a444f@ecs.umass.edu> ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers
>>re-write -- not write!) writes:
>>>Is this version fully compatible with the regular version?  Can I unZIP using
>>>this program a file which was ZIPped by the regular version?
>>
>>    Yes. Yes (unless, of course, it was encrypted).
>>
>     I would answer, "No!", because there is a possibility at any time of
>getting non-compatible files without realizing it.  The European distribution
>is essentially an example of crippled software, in this case due to stupid US
>laws, which don't apply anywhere else in the world anyway.  I would suggest
>that your scour around for the proper version, dump the crippled one, and post
>it prominently somewhere in Europe/Australia/Canada/Asia, and damn the US
>Net-Police.
>
>     The only way to get a law changed is to show all how stupid it is, to
>flagrantly violate it, and let them drag your ass in court and get it tossed
>out.
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> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>|  Arnold Gill                        |                                     |
>|  Queen's University at Kingston     |     If I hadn't wanted it heard,    |

Get Real, of course the law is stupid, nobody disagrees with that.
However, your assertion that pkz110 export version is crippleware is
rediculous.  The only way you wouldn't be able to view a zip with the
European version is if the zip is password protected, in which case
you're probably not supposed to see it anyhow.

Either violate the law, which doesn't bother me one bit, or get the
export version.  Just stop talking about this insane topic.  All you
net crybabies are driving me crazy with this stupid concern that your
precious terminals will be confiscated if you accidently export a
shareware program.

Brian