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From: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: PKARC
Message-ID: <1895@uwspan.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 22:35:42 GMT
References: <4671@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@uwspan.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison  Spanish Department
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+---- root@ozdaltx.UUCP (Scotty) writes in <4671@ozdaltx.UUCP> ----
|                                   PKARC is in violation of
| S E A's copywrite.

	How? Cuz it can process ARCs data files?  The only thing
	that Thom can copyright is his code, NOT THE IDEAS BEHIND IT.
	SEA used PUBLIC DOMAIN code to produce ARC (compress, squeeze,
	etc - look at the comments in the source if you doubt) and if
	Phil also used that code as the basis for PKARC, there is no
	violation.

	I don't like the ATTITUDE that Phil took, but I respect him
	and his program is fantastic nonetheless.  Accusing him of
	Copyright violation is a SERIOUS matter - can you back it up?

|		     Also the authors of PKARC won't release
| the code so that it can be ported to other systems, (CPM,
| *NIX, etc.)

	So what.  I can't get the source to PC-DOS and I want to make it run
	on my VAX... :-)

| The *occasional*  1-3% savings in compression is hardly
| worth the problems caused by incompability.

	This, at least, is one thing that I agree with completely!

| ============================================================
| | Scotty                     |  Adapt - Enjoy - Survive    |
| | ihnp4!killer!ozdaltx!sysop |  "Ad Venerem Securiorem"    |
| ============================================================

  -John

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