Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued by SEA (ARC author)
Keywords: katz,sea,pkarc,pkxarc,arc,suit
Message-ID: <1755@looking.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 17:58:40 GMT
References: <8084@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Lines: 16

In article <8084@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl-smoke.UUCP (Keith Petersen) writes:
>This is really incredible!  SEA is suing Phil Katz, the author of
>PK(X)ARC.  I am so angry about this that I am deleting all copies of
>SEA's ARC program.  It's time to send in your support to Phil for his
>vastly superior archiving program.

Why this nasty reaction?  Isn't this for the judge to decide?  I don't
know if PKware used any of SEA's code, and I suspect they didn't, but if
they did, then they deserve to pay through the nose.

On the other hand, it's obvious that PKARC misuses SEA's ARC trademark,
and they should be required to make that right.  But let the judge
decide.
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