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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 29 Jan 1997 07:37:57 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5cnqsl$78o@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EE0B70.1657@ml.com> <5claa2$jq1@cynic.portal.ca> <32f342b7.11963784@uns.bris.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154940 comp.os.linux.networking:66521 comp.os.linux.setup:94452 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5784 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2101 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51288 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264159 In article <32f342b7.11963784@uns.bris.ac.uk>, Alex Butcher <Alex.Butcher.DELETE.THIS@bris.ac.uk> wrote: >Er... WinZip /DOES/ do gzip format files. I can even browse .tgz files >here. It does now, but it doesn't do it with the original, GPL'd code, does it? All this means is that either the original author spent time rewriting code that was already written, rather than spending that time on other features, or someone else out there re-wrote the GPL'd code, rather than contributing new free software to the world. (In fact, the latter is the case with NetBSD; we're right now wasting time writing a front end for the free zlib so that we can have a free gzip instead of an encumbered one. This is time that would otherwise be spent writing other free software.) cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.