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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: LZ 2.00
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Date: 10 Mar 91 21:45:01 GMT
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jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>LZ 2.0 is a pirated copy of LZ 1.0.  The current highest version
>of LZ to *registered* owners is 1.03.  All versions of LZ since
>1.0 which are not registered are gonig to be crippled.
>$10 for the shareware registration fee is *quite* reasonable,
>especially with the speed that LZ compress and uncompresses at.

Well, Johnathan Forbes and I had a long drawn out discussion on this.  I blew
up at him, he got defensive, etc.. basically i felt that there was NO way for
me to fully test LZ 1.0 when it is crippleware for me to determine if it met
my needs or not.  since i had seen FAR too many buggy products from Johnathan
himself.  I pointed out terrible corrupting bugs in LZ .91 that trashed a
friends hard drive and created bad archives under 030 Machines with data
Caches on.  and he refused to believe they exhist.  in my book, any programmer
that refuses to believe a bug report has sealed his doom.  I wasn't about to
purchase LZ 1.0 until i knew these bugs were gone.  he accused me of not
wanting to pay for shareware and other nasties.  He finally admited that maybe
the crippleware was a bad idea, and that further revisions wouldn't have it. 
but then again, maybe he changed his mind (again).. I just don't have any
respect for the many anymore.

>
>So, LZ 2.0 needs to be deleted from ab20.
>--
>John  M.  Adams   --****--   Professional Student      ///
>Internet: jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu       Genie:  vlad     ///  Only the Amiga
>Sysop of The Beachside, Amiga BBS, Paragon 2.0858  \\V//  Makes it Possible
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