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- Short: Phil Katz has passed away
- Author: kbze@hrtlnd.net (Kevin Boyd Zagonyi Eckenrode)
- Uploader: kbze@hrtlnd.net (Kevin Boyd Zagonyi Eckenrode)
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- The Info-Zip home page, which has moved to
- http://www.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip, announces that Phil Katz died on
- April 14th. That's PKWare's founder, the creator of Zip, which might not have
- happened if he hadn't improved the company SEA's Arc program around 1988 or
- so, and I believe they sued him so he created Zip instead. The rest is
- history, although PKAZip never took off, and the current Info-Zip packages
- will likely still never compete with the Amiga's most popular archive formats,
- lha and lzx. At the time, Phil Katz had a great many supporters on the BBSs,
- and we happily "mentally" condemned SEA for how they handled Phil Katz's
- improvements to their program. I've always had a tremendous amount of respect
- for Phil Katz, and I wish I knew more about him. All http://www.pkware.com
- says is that PKZip's creator, Phil Katz, passed away. If you click on it, all
- it does is bring up a welcome screen giving a history of PKWare but not
- mentioning Phil Katz.
-
- To keep redundant data on the internet to a minimum, the actual .txt file
- and .readme are the same; and I've included the URLs of some interesting
- information regarding Phil Katz and his death:
-
- The original e-obituary:
- http://www.jsonline.com/news/obits/apr00/KatzPhillipW041900.asp
-
- A message thread with some interesting further information, including:
-
- more extensive information regarding how he died (I don't necessarily
- believe everything I read on the web, and this is one thing I'll take with a
- grain of salt just on principal - you'll see why):
- http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1050.html
-
- other interesting information:
- http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1061.html
- http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1075.html
- http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1091.html
- http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1109.html
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- Readme created with ARC 3.2 - Copyright (c)1996-99 by Jens Weyer.
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