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From: markh@squirrel.LABS.TEK.COM (Mark Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why do people pirate software?
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Date: 16 Aug 90 21:47:46 GMT
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In article <2056@cod.NOSC.MIL> bmarsh@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (William C. Marsh) writes:
->In article <3wJXN2w162w@halcyon.wa.com> ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
->>SEA went to court and now ARC 7.0 is better, faster, tighter (read ad hype
->>here) than anything else on the planet. [hyperbole mine]
->
->I wonder if going to court prompted this 'new' version, or the fact that ZIP
...
->we all would all have better utilities.  But as it stands I have removed all
->ARC files from my systems...
->
->Bill
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->Bill Marsh, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA

Fact is, that ARC 7.0 seems to provide tighter compression than PKZIP
1.10.  I sat down last night and tested it on various types of files
(binaries, text, program source, database...etc.) and in all cases it
compressed to a greater degree than PKZIP 1.10, LHARC 1.13d and PAK
2.10 with about the same speed as PKZIP. Registration for PKZIP is $47;
ARC 7.0 sells for $49.95; so they're comparably priced. Lawsuit or not,
I'll use the product that makes most efficient use of limited
resources: disk space and transmission time.

The outcome of the current situation is that we DO have better
utilities.  Both PKZIP 1.10 and ARC 7.0 are significantly faster and
compress to a greater degree than PKARC and ARC 5.21 did. Can one
really be confident that if things had gone differently that we would
have even better utilities?  At least I can't.

Mark
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